Gifts to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery by the John Feeney Trust
Many of these works are viewable on the Birmingham Museums website. Click any linked gallery number to see them.
Paintings and drawings
1913
Thames at Richmond, by George Hilditch
Watercolour, cost £250.
Gallery number: 1913P13
Formerly attributed to John Constable
1916
Phyllis & Demophoon, by Edward Burne-Jones
Watercolour, cost £474
Gallery number: 1916P37
1920
An Alpine Valley and
Lake and Town of Nemi, by John Robert Cozens
Watercolours, cost £300
Gallery numbers: 1920P95 and 1920P96
1922
The Quay Side, Newport, Isle of Wight, by Peter de Wint
Gallery number: 1921P87
St Privé, by Henri Joseph Harpignies
Gallery number: 1921P86
Watercolours, cost £800
In Cornwall (portrait of the artist's wife), and
Arrival at Epsom Downs for Derby week, by Sir Alfred Munnings
Oil, cost £170
Gallery number: 1921P85
Works by Francis Towne, cost £350:
9 watercolours
Ambleside (or Lake Windermere from Ambleside), gallery number: 1921P60
Bala Lake or Llyn Tegid N Wales, 1921P88
Chepstow Castle, 1921P90
View of Ludlow Castle, 1921P90
View at head of Lake Windermere, 1921P91
Cascades at Tivoli, 1921P95
Grasmere from the Rydal Road, 1921P92
View of mountains near Aberddwla, Wales, 1921P93
And 2 drawings
Near Glarus Switzerland, 1921P96
Pont Aberglaslyn, 1921P97
1925
Morgan le Fey, by Frederick Sandys
Oil, cost £372
Gallery number: 1925P104
1929
Blue and Silver, by David Muirhead
Oil, cost £150
Gallery number: 1931M957
1935
Christ as the Man of Sorrows, by Petrus Christus
Oil, cost £125
Gallery number: 1935P306
1936
Beauty & the Beast, by John Dickson Batten
Tempera, cost £275
Gallery number: 1936P322
1937
The Orchard, by Henry Tonks
Oil, cost £75
Gallery number: 1938P261
The Watermill, by Meindert Hobbema
Oil, cost £1,100
Gallery number: 1938P260
1945
The Posy, by Philip Wilson Steer
Gallery number: 1945P62
Portrait of the Artist's mother, by Joseph Southall
Gallery number: 1945P63
Oils, cost £600
1946
View of Ancient Rome, and
View of Modern Rome during the Carnival, by Samuel Palmer
Gallery numbers: 1946P15 and 1946P16
1947
Bewdley, by John Constable
Drawing, cost £75
Gallery number: 1947P13
Study of trees (Peamore, Devon), by John White Abbott
Watercolour, cost £80
Gallery number: 1947P14
1948
Susanna and the Elders, by Sir Peter Lely
Oil, cost £600
Gallery number: 1948P23
1950
Embarkation of the Earl of Manchester in Venice, by Luca Carlevaris
Oil, cost £800
Gallery number: 1949P46
1956
The Travelling Companions, by Augustus Leopold Egg
Oil, cost £950
Gallery number: 1956P7
To mark 50th anniversary of the trust
1958
The Wife's Remonstrance, by James Campbell
Oil, cost £700
Gallery number: 1958P8
Formerly attributed to Millais: the Poacher's Wife
1961
Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo, by Joseph Wright of Derby
Oil, cost £650
Gallery number: 1961P34
In honour of Pope Pius VI: 1774
1964
Metamorphosis of Birmingham, by Edmund Franklin White
Oil, cost £100
Gallery number: 1964P32
Other objects
To the Museums and Art Gallery unless otherwise indicated.
1909
Casts collection, including the friezes from the Parthenon and the Mausoleum (Halicarnassus?); most given to Perth and other art schools (1933)
Cost: £3,000
1922
À Beckett Terrell Collection of Empire Combs and frontlets
Cost £600
Gallery numbers: 1922M303-428
1923
Story of Judah and Tamar, by Sheldon Workshop
Tapestry, cost £473
Gallery number: 1923M21
1924
Chase collection of birds and eggs
Cost £3,500
Gallery number: 1924Z18
1952
Elizabethan Walnut table
Cost £550
Gallery number: 1952M43
1953
Historic Chinese ceramics, cost: £433:
Tea bowl, gallery number: 1952M63
Pair of dishes, 1952M64.1 - 2
Jar, 1952M67
Figure of a mourne, 1952M66
1954
Feeney silver cups, by Robert Rowe or Eric Clements
Cost £750
Gallery number: AG3
1964
Bronze sculpture of a beast, by Elizabeth Frink
Cost £1,800
Gallery number: 1963P4
1972
Cinquecento walnut table support
Cost £850
Gallery number: 1972M74
1984
Presentation clock and barometer, by Elkington & Co
Silver, cost £2,500
Gallery number: 1983M87
1985
Extra for centenary gift of silver
Cost £500
1986
Metalwork, by Christopher Dresser, cost £778
Lamp, gallery number: 1985M40.1
Lid, 1985M40.2
Kettle, 1985M40.3
Wick, 1985M40.4
Stand, 1985M40.5
Weight, 1985M40.6
Silver plate tea kettle stand & claret jug?
Total: £25,030
Acquisitions for which the John Feeney Charitable Trust gave a modest contribution towards the cost
1931
Collection of English and Continental Pottery and porcelain, formed by Mr C J Moon of Folkestone
Cost £200
Gallery numbers: 1931M753-957
1977
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Donor, by Giovanni Bellini
Oil, cost £1,000
Gallery number: 1977P227
1978
Warwick Castle, East Front from the Outer Court and
Warwick Castle, East Front from the Courtyard, by Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
Oil, cost £1,000
Gallery numbers: 1978P173 and 1978P174
1989
Portrait of Mary Endicott (d.1957), Mrs Joseph Chamberlain, by John Everett Millais
Oil, cost £5,000
Gallery number: 1989P60
2012
Portrait of Dr John Ash (1723-1798), by Joshua Reynolds
Oil, cost £5,000
Gallery number: 2012.0194
2013
Portrait of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), by Joseph Wright of Derby
Oil, cost £5,000
Gallery number: 2013.0049
2016
The Good Shepherd, designed by Edward Burne-Jones and produced by James Powell & Sons
Stained and painted glass, contribution £2,500
Gallery number 2001L5
Total gifts: £44,730