The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is located on New Bridge Street West. The gallery was designed in the Baroque style with Art Nouveau elements by architects Cackett & Burns Dick and is now a Grade II listed building. It was opened in 1904 and is now managed by North East Museums and sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In front of the gallery is the Blue Carpet. The building, which was financed by a gift from a local wine merchant, Alexander Laing, is Grade II listed.

The gallery collection contains paintings, watercolours and decorative historical objects, including Newcastle silver. In the early 1880s, Newcastle was a major glass producer in the world and enamelled glasses by William Beilby are on view along with ceramics (including Maling pottery), and diverse contemporary works by emerging UK artists. It has a programme of regularly rotating exhibitions. as well as works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Burne-Jones (Laus Veneris), Isabella and the Pot of Basil from 1868 by William Holman Hunt, and Ben Nicholson. There is also a collection of 18th- and 19th-century watercolours and drawings, including work by J. M. W. Turner

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File:David Wilkie (1785-1841) - Reading the News - TWCMS , F13736 - Laing Art Gallery.jpg|Reading the News by David Wilkie, 1820

File:Guy fawkes henry perronet briggs.jpg|The Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1823

File:Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) - Wild Cattle of Chillingham, Northumberland - TWCMS , B8133 - Laing Art Gallery.jpg|Wild Cattle of Chillingham by Edwin Landseer, 1867

File:Catapulta by Edward Poynter.jpg|The Catapult by Edward Poynter, 1867

File:William Holman Hunt - Isabella and the Pot of Basil, 1867.jpg|Isabella and the Pot of Basil by William Holman Hunt, 1868

File:Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) - Laus veneris - TWCMS , B8145 - Laing Art Gallery.jpg|Laus Veneris by Edward Burne-Jones, 1873

File:Hypatia (Charles William Mitchell).jpg|Hypatia by Charles William Mitchell, 1885

File:Arthur Edmund Grimshaw - The Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne.jpg|The Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne by Arthur Edmund Grimshaw, 1895

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References

  • Laing Art Gallery at North East Museums site
  • Geolocated 3D Google Earth model of the Laing Art Gallery
  • Virtual tour of the Laing Art Gallery provided by Google Arts & Culture