Robert Healy to John Minton
the Nina Drucker bequest

Having studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music's Junior Academy and regularly attended concerts throughout her life, Drucker was a keen musician – and was also passionate about the visual arts. The bequest comprises 30 prints and drawings, selected from well over a hundred that were densely hung on every available surface of her north London flat. It includes works by artists not previously represented in the Museum collection.

The selection presented here shows some of the highlights from the bequest alongside works from the collection, which she knew well from attending exhibitions, visits to the Prints and Drawings Study Room, and through Collection online. A rare drawing by Irish portraitist Robert Healy (1743–71) is the first work by this artist to enter the British Museum. Landscape watercolours by David Cox (1783–1859) and William Turner of Oxford (1789–1862) complement existing holdings by these artists. Some of Drucker's favourite works, prints by Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889–1946) and a group of drawings by John Minton (1917–1957), strengthens the Museum's holdings of British modern art.