13/07/2026
“In 2016, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the opening of the gallery, we went on to break new ground again with an exhibition and catalogue dedicated to another favourite artist of mine, Cornelius Johnson, entitled “CORNELIUS JOHNSON: Painter to King & Country”, which was held in the gallery in July of that year.
This was the first ever large-scale show dedicated to Johnson’s work, an artist whose paintings are familiar to many due to the numerous portraits that hang in notable private and public collections, both in the United Kindom and internationally.
It included twenty-seven works, the majority loans of works handled by the gallery, and others from private collections, as well as from the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, USA, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, USA, and The Royal Society of Physicians in London.
The catalogue remains a keenly referenced publication, with contributions by leading academics, including Karen Hearn, the highly acclaimed authority on Cornelius Johnson, as well as Ed Town and Jessica David from the Yale Center for British Art.”
