{"id":222967,"date":"2026-01-08T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222967\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:18:07","slug":"maidstone-museums-treasured-artist-features-on-bargain-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/222967\/","title":{"rendered":"Maidstone museum&#8217;s &#8216;treasured&#8217; artist features on Bargain Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The museum has also been awarded \u00a375,000 from the Museum Renewal Fund to showcase another Maidstone-born artist, William Alexander, who is known for his depictions of 18th Century China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alexander, born in 1767, served as the official draughtsman on Britain&#8217;s first diplomatic mission to the Chinese Qing court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Experts said Alexander&#8217;s illustrations were drawn from direct observation, offering an unprecedented view into Chinese life at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The grant is to be used to develop a touring exhibition focusing on the artist&#8217;s &#8220;global impact&#8221;, curators have said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The museum has also been awarded \u00a375,000 from the Museum Renewal Fund to showcase another Maidstone-born artist, William&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-222967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}