Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery

Established in 1893 by the Carlisle Corporation, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery is situated in a 17th century Jacobean building. The museum was extended in 1990 and then again in 2000. In 1952 artist Carel Weight succeeded Edward Le Bas as third honorary Advisor to the Purchase Scheme in 1952. Weight was not only an artist of considerable repute, he was a teacher at the RCA and a serious collector of works in his own right. Weight not only purchased works by his fellow teachers and his own students for the collection but in 1999 bequeathed 91 works to Tullie House from his own collection which reflects Weight's artistic eye.

The collection now comprises nearly 5000 largely British paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, sketchbooks and a small collection of sculpture dating from around 1650 to the present day. The 19th century artists include Samuel Palmer and the Pre-Raphaelites, Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, William Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Burne-Jones and Arthur Hughes. The 20th century artists include Conrad Atkinson, Vanessa Bell, Peter Blake, Julian Cooper, Sheila Fell, Andy Goldsworthy, Paul Nash, Wyndham Lewis, Winifred Nicholson, Lucien Pissarro, Charles Ricketts and Stanley Spencer. Cumbrian artists as one would expect are well represented with works from William James Blacklock and Sam Bough.