Step into Christmas: A Celebration of Colour

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Christmas Decorations, Vanessa Bell, Oil on Paper, c. 1915 (Yale Center for British Art)

The Christmas Tree, Harry Bush, Oil on Canvas, 1933 (Grundy Art Gallery)

‘Christmas Market at Cirencester, Gloucestershire’, Nelson Rooke, Oil on Canvas, 1953 (Derbyshire & Derby School Library Service)

Christmas Card from Duncan Grant

Duncan Grant: Strokes of Brilliance

Christmas Table, Margaret Thomas, Oil on Board, 1945 (Guildhall Art Gallery)

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

William Makepeace Thackeray, The Kickleburrys on the Rhine

(Artist Philip Wilson) Steer at Home, 109 Cheyne Walk (on Christmas Eve)’, Henry Tonks, Oil on Panel, c. 1929-30 (UCL Art Museum)

1930 (Christmas Night), Ben Nicholson, Oil & Graphite on Canvas, 1930 (Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge)

‘Christmas Day in the London Bridge Young Men's Christian Association Canteen: Her Royal Highness Princess Helena Victoria, Mrs Norrie and Miss Ellen Terry’, Clare Atwood, Oil on Canvas, 1920 (Imperial War Museum London)

Christmas Tree Viewed through Red Curtains, Charles Mahoney, Oil on Paper, c. 1952 (Museum of the Home)

A Christmas Advertisement, Henry Matthew Brock, Ink & Bodycolour on Paper, 1915 (Harris Museum & Art Gallery)

Christmas Time in the South of France, John Duncan Fergusson, Oil on Canvas, 1922 (The Fergusson Gallery)

It being Christmas eve, there was, as I had forseen, a great deal of revelry and what not.

P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit

The Christmas Tree, Harry Wilson, Oil on Textile on Card, 1950 (Woodhorn Museum)

‘Christmas at Corfe Castle, Dorset’, Elsie Barling, Oil on Board, 1957 (Dorset Museum & Art Gallery)

The Christmas Tree, Eliot Hodgkin, Oil on Board, c. 1936 (Private Collection)

Winter Time (a view through the studio window), CRW Nevinson, Oil on Canvas (Royal Academy of Music)

Old Father Christmas, Alice Bolingbroke Woodward, Watercolour on Paper, 1932 (Bushey Museum & Art Gallery)

Christmas Roses, Dorothy Larcher, Oil on Canvas, purchased 1949 (Royal West of England Academy)

My dear fellow, Christmas is a time for forgiving and forgetting.

Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Christmas, Margaret Thomas, Oil & Charcoal on Wax Paper (City Art Centre)

‘Christmas, 1944’, Dorothy Annan, Oil on Paper, 1944 (Manchester Art Gallery)

Christmas Tree, Stephen Bone, Oil on Board, 1938 (Private Collection)

The Day After Christmas, Mark Lancelot Symons, Oil on Canvas on Board, c. 1931 (Bury Art Museum)

Christmas Card from Duncan Grant, 1931

Duncan Grant: Life Before Bloomsbury

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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