Huddersfield Art Gallery

The gallery holds over 700 paintings by predominantly British artists from the 19th century to the present day including works by L. S. Lowry, Ian Mckeever, Simon Burton, Robert Priseman, William Orpen, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Philip Wilson Steer, John Bratby, Frank Auerbach, David Tindle, Terry Frost, Lucien Pissarro, John Keith Vaughan, Joan Eardley, Roger Hilton, John Bellany, Chris Gollon, Graham Sutherland, Walter Richard Sickert, Roger Fry, Henry Scott Tuke, Julian Trevelyan, Ivon Hitchens and Henry Moore, as well as by many notable local artists.

[6] It was purchased by the Contemporary Art Society and donated to Bagshaw Museum in Batley in 1952,[7] after being rejected by the Tate Gallery which, at the time, did not consider Bacon to be an important artist.

[7] They later conceded that the conditions of the Contemporary Art Society's donation meant that the work could not be sold.

[9][10] Although frequently on loan to other institutions, a council spokesman clarified that it is otherwise on public display in the Huddersfield Art Gallery.

[12] In 2014 the gallery became the first public venue to display The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British painting.