AMBERLEY LANDSCAPE DONATED TO WORTHING MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

4 December 2015: Worthing Museum and Art Gallery were pleased to receive a new painting for their collection, Amberley, a charming West Sussex landscape painted by local artist Jack Merriott, gifted from the Science Museum. It is thought that Merriott painted Amberley around 1947 for a poster commissioned by British Railways, although it could have been painted as late as 1957. The Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board are responsible, under the Railway Heritage Act, for ensuring artefacts and records that are a significant part of the nation’s railway history are preserved. As Deputy Chairman of the Science Museum Group and Chair of the Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board I was delighted to fulfil this obligation.      read more.... Watch video footage of the event

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