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The Beecroft Art Gallery in Southend-on-sea, is currently showing an exhibition of paintings by local artist and archaeological illustrator, Alan Sorrell. Alan Sorrell featured in my earlier blog post and a small selection of his paintings were included in Southend Museum’s Wunderkammer exhibition, which I reviewed separately here. The new Beecroft Art Gallery exhibition is a much more extensive review of Sorrell’s Nubian paintings, created in southern Egypt and north Sudan in 1962 when he was commissioned by the Illustrated London News to record the UNESCO International…
