{"id":358678,"date":"2026-01-08T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358678\/"},"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\/uk\/358678\/","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":358679,"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-358678","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\/358678","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=358678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}