{"id":241151,"date":"2025-11-03T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241151\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:20:07","slug":"iconic-nipper-painting-acquired-by-huguenot-museum-in-rochester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/241151\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Nipper painting acquired by Huguenot Museum in Rochester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Museum staff are &#8220;absolutely delighted&#8221; to have acquired the iconic painting His Master&#8217;s Voice following a successful crowdfunding campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artwork was painted by Francis Barraud in 1898 and features the &#8220;HMV dog&#8221;, who was named Nipper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lara Nix, director of the Huguenot Museum in Rochester, said having the painting in the permanent collection was a &#8220;real point of pride for Rochester and for Kent&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Displaying Nipper here connects that Kentish heritage to one of the world&#8217;s best-loved cultural icons,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Museum staff are &#8220;absolutely delighted&#8221; to have acquired the iconic painting His Master&#8217;s Voice following a successful crowdfunding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-241151","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-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}