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Christ Church Picture Gallery

Name: Christ Church Picture Gallery
Address: Saint Aldate's, Oxford, England, GB

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Kath

July 31, 2017

Christ Church is unique among the Oxford and Cambridge colleges in possessing an important collection of Old Master paintings and drawings, housed in a purpose-built Gallery of considerable architectural interest in itself. General John Guise bequeathed his collection of over 200 paintings and almost 2000 drawings to his former college, where it arrived after his death in 1765. This extraordinary gift enabled Christ Church to introduce art into Oxford education without the necessity to travel to Italy or to gain access to stately homes, which still held the majority of art collections in the country. At that date the collection was unequalled by any other Oxford institution. The Bodleian ‘P

Katherine

March 17, 2015

Though just one of 25 colleges, with the cathedral (college chapel), Tom Quad, frontage to Christ Church Meadow, the dining hall and the links to Lewis Carroll, this is a must-see (entrance charge).