Watford Museum

The museum is house in the former Benskins Brewery Mansion and displays of local history and industry, including Watford Football Club memorabilia and the Cassiobury Collection of fine art. Opened as recently as 1981 it possesses works from the Dutch and Flemish schools. Among the artists represented are Adam Francios van der Meulen, Klases Moleneart, Pieter Neeffs the Elder and Adriaen van Ostade. It also houses paintings by Sir Peter Lely and a self-portrait attributed to Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-le Brun. Almost identical to the painting in the Uffizi, the Vigee le Brun shows the artists working at her easel painting a portrait of Marie Antoinette. This collection is most unusual for a relatively small and recent gallery.

The 20th is represented by many local and minor artists as well as by Harry Fidler, Ethel Gabain, Owen Wynne Apperley, Louis Burleigh Bruhl, Alfred Peppercorn, William Blamire Young, Gordon Hales, Hesketh Hubbard and George Harcourt.