Bowes Museum

Barnard Castle, United Kingdom · 11 works · 8 painters

The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in Barnard Castle, a town in County Durham, northern England. Built to house the collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, it opened in 1892. Its French Second Empire-style building holds European paintings alongside decorative arts such as porcelain and textiles. Among its best-known pictures are Tears of Saint Peter by El Greco and several works by Francisco de Goya, including Interior of a Prison. It also owns a Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter by Anton van Dyck, identified as his work in 2013.

Works

**The Tears of Saint Peter**El Greco1585

**Portrait of Olivia Boteler Porter**Anthony van Dyck1630

**Juan Antonio Meléndez Valdés**Francisco Goya1797

**Beach Scene at Low Tide**Eugène Louis Boudin1867

**A Warship and Other Vessels**Willem van de Velde the Younger1690

**Mariana of Austria (1634–1696), Queen of Spain**Claudio Coello1688

**Grandmamma's Breakfast**François Bonvin1865

**The Emperor Augustus Rebuking Cornelius Cinna for His Treachery**Étienne-Jean Delécluze1814

Artists with work in this museum

Francisco Goya 3
François Bonvin 2
El Greco 1
Anthony van Dyck 1
Eugène Louis Boudin 1
Willem van de Velde the Younger 1
Claudio Coello 1
Étienne-Jean Delécluze 1