VISITORS to a North-East gallery will have an opportunity to see northern Pre-Raphaelite artist William Bell Scott's frieze The History of Northumbria alongside watercolours by J M W Turner.
William Bell Scott - A Northern Pre-Raphaelite exhibition, which has opened at Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery, will feature eight paintings of scenes depicting Northumbrian history by Scott.
There will also be two watercolours - Dunstanburgh and Brinkburn - by Joseph Mallord William Turner.
The eight paintings are normally housed in Wallington's central hall, where they fit between arches on the walls, creating a frieze that circles the room.
The eight 6ft square paintings were originally commissioned in 1856 by Pauline and Walter Trevelyan to decorate the central hall of Wallington in Northumberland.
The National Trust is loaning the frieze to the Laing during the closure of the hall for conservation and repair work.
The William Bell Scott frieze tells the story of Northumbria from the building of Hadrian's Wall to the growth of industrial Tyneside and is the centrepiece of Wallington's Pre-Raphaelite decorative scheme.
The exhibition runs until March 23, then it moves to Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens from April 17.
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