Grosvenor Museum, Chester
27 Grosvenor Street, Chester, CH1 2DD (map)
Telephone: 01244 321616
Web site:
www.chestercc.gov.uk
See also:
North West
Background information
The Grosvenor Museum houses a nationally important collection of Chester-related silver. The art gallery displays oil paintings together with sculpture and furniture, and works of art on paper are shown in thematic exhibitions in the watercolour gallery. A town house attached to the museum contains nine period rooms, ranging from 1860 to 1925. There are also important collections of Roman archaeology and natural history. The Museum has purchased an oil painting by William Huggins (1820-1884) titled "Sheep by a Mountain Stream".
General information
Facilities: Cafe, Shop, Lectures, Baby facilities
Admission: 10.30-5.00 Monday to Saturday 1.00-4.00 Sunday; Free entrance
How to find us: IN the City Centre, nearest parking Little Roodee by CHester Castle/Grosvenor Bridge. To City Centre. Chester
Particularly interesting for
Archaeology
Arms and Armour
Ceramics
Clocks and Watches
Coins and Medals
Costume
Drawings and Watercolours
Furniture and Woodwork
Glass
Local History
Musical Instruments
Natural History
Paintings
Prints
Sculpture
Silver
Social History
Children's Toys and Dolls
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Highlights of the Collection
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Abdy, William
Rococo Candlesticks
Barret, George
Beeston Castle
Bateman, Hester
George III silver punch bowl
Brason, Paul
Portrait of Canon Maurice Ridgway
Devis, Arthur William
John Arderne
Dobson, William
Mary Done
Garvey, Edmund
The Old Dee Bridge
Ginner, Charles
The Lock Gates, Chester
Gower, Lord Ronald
William Ewart Gladstone
Harraden, Richard Banks
Eaton Hall
Herring, John Frederick
Feeding the Ducks
König, Johann
Virgin anfd Child with the Infant Baptist
Kelly, Felix
Chirk Castle
Munro, Alexander
Constance, Countess Grosvenor
Oost, Jacob van, Snr.
Diana the Huntress
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Peake, Robert
Portrait of Thomas Aldersey
Pether, Henry
Chester Castle by Moonlight
Rathbone, John
Thirlmere
Robinson, Thomas
Caudle Cup
Smith, Benjamin
Dinner Service
Somer (Senior), Paul van
Sir John Donne
Souch, John
An Unknown Couple
Storr, Paul
Teapot and cream jug
Tasker, William
'Millipede' on the Roodee
Tillemans, Pieter
Chester and the Roodee
Walley, Ralph
Silver mead jug
Walley, Ralph
Tankard
; Tankard
Wedgwood, Josiah and/or factories
Two pairs of vases made for Winnington Hall at Northwich.
Wright, John Michael
Sir John Crewe
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Other artists represented in the Collection
Boys, Thomas Shotter
Caldecott, Randolph
Clowes, Daniel and Henry
Cuitt, George
Downman, John
Griffith, Moses
Halton, John Prince
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Harrison, Thomas
Lamplough, Augustus Osborne
Lee-Hankey, William
Nash, Joseph
Nicholson, Ben
Pickering, George
Prout, John Skinner
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Rayner, Louise
Schonberger, Lorenz Adolf
Smith, John 'Warwick'
Solomon, Simeon
Varley, Cornelius
Varley, John
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