The Long Gallery

This space houses a permanent display of the best of the museum's fine art. The painting collection covers British and European art ranging in date from the 11th century to the present day.  Highlights include: a group of 17th Dutch and Northern European paintings; paintings by important Nottingham artists Paul Sandby, Richard Parkes Bonington, Thomas Barber, John Rawson Walker and Henry Dawson; a 20th century British collection including works by William Nicholson, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Dame Laura Knight, Harold Knight, Edward Burra, Edward Wadsworth and Tristram Hillier, Mathew Smith, L.S. Lowry, Ivon Hitchens and Stanley Spencer