Doncaster Mansion House Portraits: A Pictorial Tour. (23rd September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barber, Brian
• Is Part Of: Yorkshire archaeological journal. Volume 94(2022)
• Page Start: 148
• Page End: 166
• Publication Date: 2022-09-23
• Subjects: Doncaster -- horse racing -- municipal politics -- political patronage -- portrait painters -- royal portraits -- Yorkshire Whigs; Yorkshire (England) -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Yorkshire (England) -- History -- Periodicals; 942.8
• DOI: 10.1080/00844276.2022.2071047
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0084-4276

Abstract

Abstract: Doncaster's civic Mansion House contains, amongst other paintings, 23 portraits in oils acquired between 1804 and 1985 in four of its principal rooms. A few were commissioned for the building, but most were obtained by gift from a range of donors. This article explains the occasion and examines the motives for these acquisitions and suggests some mutual features which provide historical links between them.