Many of the greats of the country’s artists on show

There’s a chance to view works by the New English Art Club in an exhibition at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath this month.

The exhibition will feature more than 40 works by current Club members, all of which will be for sale. Also on show will be paintings by former exhibitors of the New English Art Club including Gwen John, Winifred Nicholson, John Singer Sargent, Stanley Spencer, Walter Sickert, Augustus John, Dod Procter and Paul Nash.

The show opened last month and is entitled Capturing Life: A Century of the New English Art Club and will run until 11 April 2023.

The New English Art Club was founded in 1886 by a group of rebellious young artists protesting against their repeated rejection by the Royal Academy. Their aim was to exhibit “really good modern painting”. In 1937 the art historian and museum curator Mary Chamot described the Club