Minute book of the Shipley Bequest Committee, mss.
OXBERRY,J.(comp.) The Shipley Bequest a book of newspaper cuttings relating to the disposition of the pictures of the late J.A.D. Shipley, mss.
Catalogue of the costly household furnishings which Messrs. Atkinson and Garland will sell by auction at Saltwell Park House, Gateshead on Monday 19th April 1909
Catalogue comprising upwards of 1200 oil paintings belonging to the estate of the late J.A.D. Shipley Esq., which will be sold by auction at the Exhibition Hall, St. Mary's Place, Newcastle, 1914
Catalogue of the Permanent collection of pictures: provisional edition (County Borough of Gateshead, 19l9)
Catalogue of the paintings and drawings in The Shipley Art Gallery:
3rd ed. (County Borough of Gateshead 1951)
Shipley Art Gallery & Saltwell Park Museum Annual reports 1947-1968
MANDERS, F.W.D. A History of Gateshead (Gateshead M.B.C., 1973)
WRIGHT, C. Dutch and Flemish 16th and 17th century paintings from the Shipley collection (Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, 1979)
Newcastle and Gateshead Directories 1860-1909
SOURCES USED
Gateshead Central Library ; Local Studies Department
Newcastle Central Library; Local Studies Department
Newcastle upon Tyne Civic Centre; Cemeteries Department
Tyne and Wear Archives
Mr. Andrew Gregg, Curator of the Shipley Art Gallery
SOURCES OF INFORMATION: BRIEF SUMMARY
The sources of information which I found of most value to this particular project were the following:
1.The Shipley Bequest; a book of newspaper cuttings complied by John Oxberry, a noted local historian of the early twentieth century. This correlated nearly all the newspaper reports concerning Shipley and his bequest.
2.Dutch and Flemish 16th and 17th century paintings from the collection by C. Wright. This gave lots of information about these particular paintings together with accounts of Shipley's life and the type of paintings he bought.
3. 3.The Auction catalogue of the paintings. I was fortunate in obtaining what was probably the auctioneer's own catalogue as it gave details of all the prices the pictures realised together with the purchasers names.
4. 4.Mr. Andrew Gregg, the Curator of the Shipley Gallery who gave me his personal opinion of the Shipley pictures and allowed me to see the paintings not currently available.
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