Nottingham City Museums and Galleries’ fine art collection covers British and European oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints and sculpture ranging in date from the eleventh century to the present day. Highlights of the painting collection include: a group of seventeenth-century Dutch and Northern European paintings; paintings by important Nottingham artists Paul Sandby, Richard Parkes Bonington, Thomas Barber, John Rawson Walker and Henry Dawson; a twentieth-century British collection including works by William Nicholson, Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Dame Laura Knight, Harold Knight, Edward Burra, Edward Wadsworth and Tristram Hillier, Mathew Smith, L. S. Lowry, Ivon Hitchens and Stanley Spencer.