Opening hours

Mon - Sat: 10am - 4:45pm
Closed: Sundays and Bank Holidays

Free Entry

There may be a charge for special exhibitions. Please call to confirm.

The collection comprises over 2000 items which consist of paintings in oils and watercolours, drawings, prints and sculptures.

Highlights of the collection include work by Cornish artists and artists living in Cornwall, particularly from the Newlyn and St Ives Schools. Important works in these areas include several paintings by Henry Scott Tuke and also by Harold Harvey. There are large works by Stanhope Forbes, Elizabeth Forbes, Julius Olsson, Norman Garstin, Annie Walke, Charles Napier Hemy and Sherwood Hunter. There is a fair but by no means comprehensive representation of other artists in these schools. Earlier Cornish art is represented by the painter John Opie, the sculptor Neville Northy Burnard and Truro-born miniaturist Henry Bone and his son.

Outside local works there are paintings by internationally significant artists such as William Hogarth, John Constable, Sir Peter Lely, Lord Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Sir Godfrey Kneller and Cranach. There is also a small group of early Italian paintings.

Further highlights are contained within the Master drawings many of which were given by Alfred de Pass and include works by George Romney, John Constable, John Sell Cotman, Thomas Gainsborough, Samuel Prout, JMW Turner, Van Dyck, Sargent, Rossetti, Rubens, Correggio, Guardi, Tiepolo, Il Guercino, Rowlandson and Augustus John. There are many topographical drawings and watercolours of local interest and by local artists including Newlyn School artists.

Please note: The Philbrick Fine Art Gallery will be closed from the 3-25 October for a rehang and on the 14 November for the RIC AGM