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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
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SUMMARY:Anna Hennings: Artist in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Paintings\, prints\, drawings\, sculpture and mixed media pieces produced over the course of the redevelopment project\, Reviving an Artist’s Birthplace\, by Artist in Residence\, Anna Hennings. \nThe art she exhibits carefully intertwines the story of the House’s renovations with her numerous arts projects from across the region. It expresses an awareness of our relationship to the spaces we inhabit and demonstrates her versatility across an array of media. \nIf you are interested in any of the artworks displayed or are seeking information on selected commissions\, please contact Anna Hennings directly. \nThe Sudbury Gallery
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/anna-hennings-artist-in-residence/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
DTSTAMP:20230609T091047Z
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SUMMARY:Striking Editions: Lithographs from 1970 – 2000
DESCRIPTION:Colourful lithographs by artists including Dia al-Azzawi\, David Bowie\, Uzo Egonu\, Tracey Emin\, Terry Frost\, Alexis Hunter and Paula Rego. \nStriking Editions celebrates the art of lithography through a diverse body of artists working in the second half of the twentieth century. Both figurative and abstract\, these striking images reflect a vibrant period of experimentation with prints that explore the exciting possibilities of the medium. From the bold allegorical images of Paula Rego to the rich storytelling of Uzo Egonu\, these images brilliantly display the versatility of lithography. \nThe prints on display were all made in collaboration with the master printer Alan Cox (1941–2021)\, who specialised in lithography. Based in East London\, he printed the work of major artists for over forty years. He referred to lithography as the “social art” in which “you always work together”. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is included with an admission to the House & Galleries. \n\n\n\nThe David Pike Drawings Gallery in the old House
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/striking-editions-lithographs-from-1970-2000/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
DTSTAMP:20230609T090903Z
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SUMMARY:Gainsborough and the Legacy of Landscape: Masterpieces from Woburn Abbey
DESCRIPTION:Masterpieces on loan from the Woburn Abbey Collection by artists including Thomas Gainsborough\, Claude Lorrain\, Aelbert Cuyp\, David Teniers the Younger\, Sir Edwin Landseer and Richard Parkes Bonington. \n“This exhibition explores the origins of Gainsborough’s landscape art through the examples of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth century paintings in the Woburn Abbey collection collected by the Dukes of Bedford in the eighteenth century. It is aided by the inclusion of comparable drawings in Gainsborough’s hand from the collection of Gainsborough’s House. The exhibition also examines the development of English landscape art after Gainsborough as seen in the Woburn Abbey Collection\, and in particular the inspirational role played by the 6th Duke of Bedford in supporting and encouraging all forms of art through his own patronage in the first half of the nineteenth century. \n\n\n\nThe opportunity to explore these subjects and bring together familiar masterpieces with a new lens\, is made possible by the temporary closure of Woburn Abbey to enable a generational investment in its fabric and infrastructure and the subsequent redisplay of the collections.” \n— Matthew Hirst\nCurator\, Woburn Abbey \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Timothy & Mary Clode Gallery
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gainsborough-and-the-legacy-of-landscape-masterpieces-from-woburn-abbey/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230227
DTSTAMP:20221208T153704Z
CREATED:20221117T125729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T153704Z
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SUMMARY:Ignatius Sancho: A Portrait
DESCRIPTION:Unknown Artist after Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Ignatius Sancho\, c. 1802-20. Gainsborough’s House and National Portrait Gallery. \nEntrance is included in price of House admission. \nIn 1768 Thomas Gainsborough painted the portrait of Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780)\, who was then valet to the Duke of Montagu. The portrait of Sancho is a rare depiction of a black man in eighteenth-century Europe shown not as an enslaved person\, servant or caricature\, but as a gentleman. After Sancho’s death\, the portrait was engraved and used to illustrate a publication of his letters\, which played a significant role in the abolitionist movement. On display at the centre of this exhibition is a rare copy of the portrait in miniature\, which was jointly acquired by Gainsborough’s House with the National Portrait Gallery in 2019. \nSancho lived a remarkable life. Born to enslaved parents in the West Indies\, he became famous for his correspondence with the author Laurence Sterne and for the grocers that he ran in Westminster. He was the first black man to receive an obituary in the British press.  The temporary exhibition Ignatius Sancho: A Portrait\, aims to shed light on just a few of the interesting and varied aspects of Sancho’s life using his published letters as inspiration. It is supported by loans from the National Portrait Gallery and The Laurence Sterne Trust. \nThe exhibition has been created in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery as part of their transformational Inspiring People project that includes an extensive programme of nationwide activities\, funded by The National Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/ignatius-sancho-a-portrait/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230227
DTSTAMP:20221125T161354Z
CREATED:20221101T175218Z
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SUMMARY:Painting Flanders: Flemish Art 1880-1914
DESCRIPTION:Suffolk and Flanders are not far apart as the crow flies. There have been connections between them for centuries\, ever since Flemish merchants came to Suffolk to buy the coveted wool of Suffolk sheep for Flemish weavers to turn into high-quality cloth. By Gainsborough’s day\, in both England and Flanders\, new manufacturing processes are already heralding the Industrial Revolution – and the overcrowded towns\, the stink and the noise it brings with it. \nIt’s said that in sixteenth-century Flanders the painter Pieter Bruegel would often make field trips into the Flemish countryside\, dressed as a peasant. Back in his studio he paints his famous peasant scenes\, full of wry observations. A century later\, David Teniers captures that same rural character in his charming pictures of fairs and tavern interiors. And in between those two\, Peter Paul Rubens paints the landscape of Flanders as only he can: lush and lyrical. \nIn eighteenth-century Suffolk\, the countryside is Thomas Gainsborough’s preferred subject too. A little later\, John Constable follows in his footsteps. Compared to the growing forest of smoking factory chimneys\, the countryside offers a reassuring timelessness. \nThe same changes are taking place in Flanders. An enterprising Fleming – a contemporary of Gainsborough and Constable\, called Lieven Bauwens – steals the secrets of spinning technology and smuggles that knowledge back to Ghent\, his home town and a flourishing artistic centre. Ghent becomes the ‘Manchester of the Continent’. By the mid-nineteenth century it’s one of the most heavily industrialized cities in Europe. There is\, of course\, a price to be paid for that technological progress. Poverty and filth\, endemic diseases\, squalid slums. And so Flemish painters do what English artists did before them: they move to the countryside. \nImage © The Phoebus Foundation\, Antwerp \nEmile Claus\nPeasant Girls beside the Leie\, c.1893
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/painting-flanders/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190907T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191027T170000
DTSTAMP:20230411T155725Z
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SUMMARY:Vivienne Westwood at Gainsborough’s House
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo celebrate the inaugural Sudbury Silk Festival (7 September 2019)\, Gainsborough’s House is proud to display four ensembles by the iconic British fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood. Ranging from the last two decades\, they show how Vivienne has repeatedly taken inspiration from historic dress\, particularly that of the eighteenth century. \nVivienne first became known in the 1970s for her avant-garde designs that defined punk culture. In the 1980s she started using traditional tailoring techniques and British fabrics and turned to seventeenth and eighteenth-century art for inspiration. It was also the decade that she met her husband and long-time design partner\, Andreas Kronthaler. In the early 2000s\, Vivienne was appointed Dame of the British Empire and awarded ‘Outstanding Achievement in Fashion’ at the British Fashion Awards. \nVivienne Westwood is one of the last independent global fashion companies in the world. It strives to not only capture the imagination but also to raise awareness of environmental and human rights issues. \nWe are very grateful to Dame Vivienne Westwood for lending these ensembles.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/vivienne-westwood-at-gainsboroughs-house/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190816T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190821T170000
DTSTAMP:20190402T112405Z
CREATED:20190402T112405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T112405Z
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SUMMARY:Fine Art Prints Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exhibition of original prints by members of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop. The Pond Gallery\, Snape Maltings\, Snape. Works on display include framed and unframed prints demonstrating printmaking process including etching\, mono print \, silkscreen\, engraving\, collograph and lithography  will be available for sale. \nNB Wednesday 21st August 10.00am – 4.00pm \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/fine-art-prints-exhibition/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190622T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191027T170000
DTSTAMP:20190708T083320Z
CREATED:20190619T135645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190708T083320Z
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SUMMARY:Masters of the Golden Age: Gainsborough\, Constable\, Turner and Lawrence
DESCRIPTION:A significant private collection goes public for the first time. Gainsborough’s House is delighted to announce an exhibition of a private collection that will be shown in public for the first time. With major paintings from the golden age of British painting it shares with a new audience works by Gainsborough\, Constable\, Turner and Lawrence. Thomas Gainsborough\, an artist who was important in building the British school of painting is featured at his very best in paint and pencil\, and it is particularly relevant that the exhibition is to be held at Gainsborough’s House. It is also significant that the collection is being lent by one of Gainsborough’s House’s leading benefactors to the project to make the House a National Centre for Thomas Gainsborough. \nHighlights include: Thomas Gainsborough\, Wooded Landscape with Figures\, Cottage and a Pool\, John Constable\, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows\, J M W Turner\, Bolton Abbey and Sir Thomas Lawrence\, Elizabeth\, Duchess of Devonshire. \n  \nImage: John Constable\, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows\, Oil on canvas
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/masters-of-the-golden-age-gainsborough-constable-turner-and-lawrence/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190511T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190518T170000
DTSTAMP:20190402T121216Z
CREATED:20190402T110639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T121216Z
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SUMMARY:Original Fine Art Prints
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin us for an exhibition of original prints by members of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop at St Peter’s\, Sudbury. Works on display include framed and unframed prints demonstrating printmaking processes including etching\, mono print\, silkscreen\, engraving\, collograph and lithography will be available for sale by over 30 members of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop \nThe opening reception will be on Saturday 11th May:  12.00 – 2.00pm \nNB Saturday 18th May 10.00am – 4.30pm \nImages (L-R):\nJulie Orpen\nRosie Perkins\nTerry Bryan\nJackie Merry\nNiall Hennessy
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/original-fine-art-prints-4/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190223T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190616T170000
DTSTAMP:20190227T122006Z
CREATED:20181207T094000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190227T122006Z
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SUMMARY:Nicole Farhi: Heads and Hands
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn 2015 Nicole Farhi\, sculptor and former fashion designer created a bronze bust of Thomas Gainsborough for Gainsborough’s House. Four years later we are delighted to announce a solo exhibition of sculptural portraits of heads and hands by the artist. \nThe exhibition includes busts of some of the great artists of the past 100 years including Lucian Freud (1922-2011)\, Francis Bacon (1909–1992)\, but perhaps most notably\, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005)\, Nicole Farhi’s great friend and mentor. Influential figures from stage and screen are represented through the heads of Sir David Hare\, Tom Stoppard\, Judi Dench and Helena Bonham Carter. \nTalking about the process of creating her work\, Nicole explains that the portrait busts emerge from a sitting in the studio where photographs are taken of the subject. \n‘I then start building an armature and after a few hours sculpting in clay the structure of the face will appear or not … Once I have the structure the true character will follow –sometimes days later\, weeks\, sometimes months.’ \nImportantly the exhibition also includes portraits of hands and\, like the heads that they accompany in this exhibition\, they show character and reflect the life and work of the sitter. They portray the dexterous hands of musicians\, graceful hands of dancers\, the experienced hands of a sculptor and the joyful hands of children. \n‘Hands’\, Nicole says\, ‘can be even more expressive than the face. They can tell you everything about who the person is\, what they are like\, what they do.’ \nA sculptor for nearly thirty-five years Nicole studied with Eduardo Paolozzi and has exhibited widely. Her depiction of artists and cultural figures led to the creation of the bust of Thomas Gainsborough\, which Nicole presented to Gainsborough’s House. \nImage: Nicole in her studio
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/nicole-farhi-heads-and-hands/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181020T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190217T170000
DTSTAMP:20181017T201102Z
CREATED:20180921T120717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181017T201102Z
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SUMMARY:Early Gainsborough: 'From the Obscurity of a Country Town'
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition focusses on the early life and art of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88). It explores how Gainsborough made his first steps in the art world from the inspiration of the landscape surrounding his hometown of Sudbury\, through his training in London in the 1740s\, to his return to Suffolk around 1748. This is a particularly important exhibition for Gainsborough’s House because it deals with Gainsborough’s time in Sudbury\, his family and reveals for the first time new research on this significant period of the burgeoning artist. \nThis exhibition will show paintings from Gainsborough’s House collection\, new acquisitions and loans that give new insight into Gainsborough’s early life and development as an artist. It will draw on a significant collection of the paintings\, prints and ephemera on Gainsborough from the 1740s. \n  \nImage above:\nThomas Gainsborough (1727-88)\nMR & MRS JOHN BROWN AND THEIR\nDAUGHTER\, ANNA MARIA\,\nc. 1754-55\noil on canvas\n© Private Collection Norfolk UK
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/early-gainsborough-from-the-obscurity-of-a-country-town/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180821T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180829T170000
DTSTAMP:20180803T155826Z
CREATED:20180803T154609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180803T155826Z
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SUMMARY:Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop at the Cambridge Original Printmakers Biennale
DESCRIPTION:Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop at the Cambridge Original Printmakers Biennale 21-29 September 2018\, 10.30am-5pm in the Pitt Building\, Trumpington Street\, Cambridge CB2 1RB \nGainsborough’s House Print Workshop is delighted to participate in the Cambridge Original Printmakers Biennale 2018. We will be showing prints by our talented tutors and thank Dale Devereux Barker\, Carl Borges\, Peter Brown\, Emma Buckmaster\, Michael Carlo\, Anne Desmet RA\, Megan Fishpool\,  Colin Gale\, Jason Hicklin\, Susan Jones\, Jude Lockie\, Sue Molineux and Annabel Ridley for their participation. We also celebrate our namesake by including a print by Thomas Gainsborough who was an innovative printmaker. Many etching techniques currently in use in the Workshop would be familiar to him. We are also pleased to include work by our Committee  which demonstrates the range of methods used by workshop members. \nGainsborough’s House Print Workshop is a friendly well-equipped\, and professional printmaking resource. Located at the childhood home of the celebrated painter\, Thomas Gainsborough\, the Workshop adjoins a thriving museum\, and welcomes artists\, students and print enthusiasts of all abilities. Techniques taught include relief printing\, etching\, screenprinting\, monoprinting and lithography. Courses are led by well known and experienced tutors. \nCambridge Original Printmakers Biennale.pdf \n  \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gainsboroughs-house-print-workshop-at-the-cambridge-original-printmakers-biennale/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180720T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180725T170000
DTSTAMP:20180627T095430Z
CREATED:20180627T095430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180627T095430Z
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SUMMARY:Fine Art Prints by Gainsborough's House Print Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Members of the Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop exhibit their work at The Pond Gallery\, Snape Maltings. \nShops & Galleries open: \nMonday–Saturday 10am–5.30pm\nSunday 10.30am–4.30pm (browsing from 10am)
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/fine-art-prints-by-gainsboroughs-house-print-workshop/
LOCATION:The Pond Gallery\, Snape Maltings\, Snape\, IP17 1SP
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180623T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181014T170000
DTSTAMP:20180514T114641Z
CREATED:20180514T114627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180514T114641Z
UID:10001972-1529748000-1539536400@gainsborough.org
SUMMARY:Anne Desmet RA: An Italian Journey
DESCRIPTION:Anne Desmet RA is an artist who specialises in wood engravings\, linocuts and collages. Significantly she is only the third wood\nengraver ever to be elected to the membership of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in its 250-year history. \nThis exhibition at Gainsborough’s House brings together selected highlights from her Italian prints with the addition of some new works including a sequence of special wood engravings created this year to raise funds for the Gainsborough’s House capital project. \nMany of the works in this exhibition are for sale along with a special limited edition version of the facsimile sketchbook presented in its own cloth-bound box with a related limited edition wood engraving created\, printed and signed by the artist.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/anne-desmet-ra-an-italian-journey/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180210T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180617T170000
DTSTAMP:20171214T123309Z
CREATED:20171214T094548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171214T123309Z
UID:10001964-1518256800-1529254800@gainsborough.org
SUMMARY:Cedric Morris at Gainsborough's House
DESCRIPTION:In 2017 a significant collection of over 100 works by Cedric Morris was gifted to Gainsborough’s House. Works in the collection include landscape and portrait paintings as well as drawings\, prints and even Cedric Morris’s palette. Uniquely the works remained part of Cedric Morris’s private collection until his deathin 1982. Maggi Hambling\, who was a student and friend of Cedric Morris\, has been instrumental in introducing the collection to Gainsborough’s House and in selecting the paintings and drawings for this exhibition.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/cedric-morris-at-gainsboroughs-house/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171107T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171203T170000
DTSTAMP:20171127T122254Z
CREATED:20161027T110610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171127T122254Z
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SUMMARY:Original Fine Art Prints
DESCRIPTION:Members of Gainsborough’s House\, Print Workshop are holding an exhibition of their work at The Apex\, Bury St Edmunds. Join us for an informal reception on Saturday 11 November 12-2pm.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/original-fine-art-prints/
LOCATION:The Apex\, 1 Charter Square\, Bury St Edmunds
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171028T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180204T170000
DTSTAMP:20171116T122020Z
CREATED:20171025T094248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171116T122020Z
UID:10001958-1509184800-1517763600@gainsborough.org
SUMMARY:Creating a National Centre for Gainsborough
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the creation of a national centre for Gainsborough in Sudbury. A long-held ambition\, this project is now a real possibility\, with significant investment from the Heritage Lottery Fund and other generous supporters. Featuring the latest plans\, it illustrates the new spaces being created through pictures and objects\, and gives visitors the opportunity to explore our future plans in more detail.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/creating-a-national-centre-for-gainsborough/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171020T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171020T213000
DTSTAMP:20171009T132908Z
CREATED:20170816T211235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171009T132908Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary & Post War British Art Auction
DESCRIPTION:You can bid online today at the-saleroom.com/gainsborough \nLEADING ARTISTS from across Britain are getting behind our £8.5 million project to create a National Centre for Thomas Gainsborough – giving art lovers and collectors a unique opportunity to bid for contemporary and post-war paintings\, prints and sculpture rarely seen in the market place. \nThe Contemporary & Post War British Art Sale will feature around 130 lots donated from over 125 estates and studios that have pledged their support towards Gainsborough’s House. \nThe works represent some of Britain’s greatest and most inspiring artists including Edward Bawden\, Francis Davison\, Anthony Eyton\, Antony Gormley\, Maggi Hambling\, Clive Head\, John Hoyland\, David Inshaw\, Allen Jones\, Sarah Lucas\, Margaret Mellis\, Julian Opie and William Pye. Everyone is welcome to view selected works for free from 14 – 19 October. \nMaggi Hambling CBE\, a Patron of Gainsborough’s House who spear-headed the event along with art critic Andrew Lambirth said: “Since galleries couldn’t exist without artists\, it’s fitting that artists have responded so wholeheartedly to supporting a new National Centre for Thomas Gainsborough\, one of England’s greatest.” \nIn 2016\, we were delighted to learn that the Heritage Lottery Fund had earmarked £4.73 million for the renovation and redisplay of the historic house and the construction of a new\, landmark three-storey structure with four new galleries – a showcase Gainsborough gallery\, a landscape studio with panoramic views over Sudbury\, a community gallery and a major exhibition gallery/performance space. \n \nAs part of a far-reaching fundraising campaign to secure over £3 million in match-funding still needed to safeguard the project\, we hope this prestigious event will help close the gap on our funding targets. \nMark Bills\, Director of Gainsborough’s House\, said: “Here is a unique opportunity to bid for contemporary and post-war paintings\, prints and sculpture rarely seen in the market place and in so doing be part of this exciting and ambitious project.” \nThe Contemporary & Post War British Art Sale takes place at The Assembly Rooms\, Town Hall\, Sudbury CO10 1TL on Friday 20 October from 6.30pm – tickets £25 (including refreshments and catalogue) available from T: 01787 372958 or E: jackieb@gainsborough.org \nYou can bid online from 1 October at the-saleroom.com/gainsborough \nViewing of key works from 14 – 19 October\nFree entry all week and late night opening on Thursday 19 October until 8pm \nImage above: Maggie Hambling\, North Sea Rolling\, 2015-17\, oil on canvas\n \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/contemporary-post-war-british-art-auction/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170617T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171008T170000
DTSTAMP:20170616T114006Z
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SUMMARY:New Acquisitions: Lady Helena Rawdon’s Three Pastels
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition in our Lift Gallery\, displays a group of three pastel drawings and can be attributed with some certainty to the talented draughtswoman Lady Helena Rawdon\, née Perceval (1717–46). They were originally presented en suite with a rare image of a female pastellist at work\, possibly depicting Lady Helena herself. Accompanying the portrait of A Sybil\, this display includes copies of the Four Seasons made by Lady Helena after the Venetian Rococo painter Rosalba Giovana Carriera (1673–1757)\, entitled Winter and Summer. \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/new-acquisitions-lady-helena-rawdons-three-pastels/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171009
DTSTAMP:20170420T094531Z
CREATED:20170419T103819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170420T094531Z
UID:10000148-1497657600-1507507199@gainsborough.org
SUMMARY:Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury
DESCRIPTION:The market town of Sudbury in Suffolk has a surprising history. Regarded today as Great Britain’s most important centre for silk manufacture\, Sudbury produces nearly 95 per cent of the nation’s woven silk textiles from its three working mills: Vanners Silk Weavers\, Stephen Walters & Sons and Gainsborough Silks. Dating back to the late 1700s\, Sudbury’s nascent silk industry was facilitated by the town’s former history as a wool centre\, to which many family members of the Sudbury-born artist Thomas Gainsborough\, R.A. (1727– 1788) plied their trade. \nThe exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June – 8 October 2017) will explore the local and national history of silk in England from the eighteenth century to the present day\, focussing on the diaspora of silk manufacture from Spitalfields in London to Sudbury in Suffolk. In the first part of the exhibition\, the formation of the English silk industry in Spitalfields in the early 1700s will be examined\, highlighting the important Huguenot silk weavers who formed the basis of this work force. Objects displayed will illustrate the processes of design and manufacture\, and include everything from silk pattern books and historic costume to paintings and drawings featuring silk fashions of the era. \nIn the second part of the exhibition\, the focus will turn to the relocation of silk manufacture from London to Suffolk over the course of the nineteenth century\, exploring the history of Sudbury’s silk mills and the textiles they produced. Objects on show from the town’s three mills\, in addition to the Sudbury manufacturer Humphries Weaving\, will illustrate the many types of silk made in Sudbury\, past and present – from furnishing textiles for historic palaces to contemporary design fabrics made for major British fashion houses. \nThis exhibition will draw together artworks and textiles from both national and local collections\, including the Victoria & Albert Museum\, Norfolk Museums Service and the Warner Textile Archive. As the childhood home of the artist Thomas Gainsborough situated at the very heart of the nation’s active silk industry\, Gainsborough’s House is ideally placed to tell this important story of silk in England: from Spitalfields to Sudbury. \nImage: A Page from the Wilson Album from Vanners Silk Mill
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/silk-from-spitalfields-to-sudbury/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T170000
DTSTAMP:20170422T110628Z
CREATED:20170422T110628Z
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SUMMARY:Original Fine Art Prints
DESCRIPTION:Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop members exhibit their work at their annual exhibition held at St Peter’s\, Market Hill\, Sudbury.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/original-fine-art-prints-2/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170225T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T170000
DTSTAMP:20170408T200342Z
CREATED:20170111T125707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170408T200342Z
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SUMMARY:Julian Perry: The County of Elms
DESCRIPTION:To coincide with our new permanent exhibition Constable at Gainsborough’s House we are delighted to display a solo exhibition by landscape painter Julian Perry. \nThroughout his career\, Julian has observed and recorded the changing face of the British landscape. He is inspired by and responds to environmental issues that impact the natural world. \nThis exhibition displays Julian’s most recent works\, which examine the East Anglian landscape also known as ‘Constable Country’. His complex and highly crafted studies of diseased trees and eroding cliffs depict the ever-changing face of rural Suffolk. Before the devastating effects of Dutch elm disease\, Suffolk had one of the highest number of Elm trees in the country\, and was known affectionately as the ‘County of Elms’. Superficially it may seem that this landscape has changed little since Constable’s time. However\, habitat loss\, species decline and climate changes are having a profound and ongoing impact on the environment. \nJulian explains: “As a child I witnessed the catastrophic death of twenty million English elm trees. For many years the huge dead trees stood as towering witness to what can happen if things go very wrong. For me\, trees are a visual signifier of what can be good or bad about our relationship with the natural world”. \nJulian Perry was born in Worcester 1960. He studied at Berkshire College of Art and Design and at Bristol Polytechnic\, graduating in Fine Art in 1981. He now divides his time between East London and the small Suffolk coastal village of Dunwich. \nJulian has exhibited widely thoroughout his career and has won many prizes including the Arts Council and British Council awards. In 2015 he exhibited in the prestigious Venice Biennale. His works feature in many public and private collections. \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/julian-perry-the-county-of-elms/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170225T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T170000
DTSTAMP:20170111T124544Z
CREATED:20170111T124434Z
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SUMMARY:Constable at Gainsborough’s House
DESCRIPTION:In February Gainsborough’s House will be opening a display of art works\, painting materials and family memorabilia by Suffolk-born artist John Constable (1776-1837). These have descended directly through Constable’s heirs and\, together with additional archival material from the same collection\, will remain at Gainsborough’s House on long loan. \nBorn in East Bergholt\, not far from Sudbury\, Constable was a great admirer of his Suffolk antecedent Thomas Gainsborough. Indeed\, in his early career Constable tended to see the local landscape through the latter’s eyes\, telling a friend ‘ I fancy I see Gainsborough in every hedge and hollow tree’. Examples of some of Constable’s early drawings which reveal the influence of Gainsborough’s style will be included in the exhibition\, shown alongside sketches of shipping\, studies from plaster casts and from the life model which Constable made when a student at the Royal Academy schools – even\, indeed\, some designs he made for a local Suffolk altarpiece. Complementing these will be examples of Constable’s later landscape drawings and watercolours which show his more mature style – such as a View of London from Hampstead\, c. 1830\, with its magnificently expressive sky. Another highlight in the display will be the striking oil sketch of a Moorhen Startled from its Nest which Constable later used in his large exhibition canvas The Leaping Horse\, 1825 (Royal Academy). \nIn addition to these\, the display will include some more personal items belonging to Constable and his family such as the ring he gave to Maria Bicknell on their wedding day in 1816 (which took place after an extended courtship of seven years)\, or some locks of Constable’s hair dating from the time he was a child. There will also be some family portraits\, painted by Constable himself. Other exhibited items will relate more closely to the artist’s professional life or his reputation\, such as the paint box he used in his mid to late career which still contains a number of his paintbrushes as well as glass phials of dry pigment; or the large print he published after one of his most important late paintings\, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows\, 1831\, the latter recently acquired by Tate on behalf of the nation. \nAnne Lyles\, Art Historian
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/constable-at-gainsboroughs-house/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170220
DTSTAMP:20161011T115433Z
CREATED:20161011T115148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161011T115433Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Gainsborough: Methods of Making
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition marks the culmination of a conservation research project\, generously funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and carried out in partnership with the University of Cambridge’s Hamilton Kerr Institute. Focusing on a single painting from the Gainsborough’s House collection\, it sheds new light on the artist’s early painting technique and methods of working. \nThe painting in question was allocated to Gainsborough’s House in 2015 through the government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Titled Wooded Landscape with Old Peasant and Donkeys outside a Barn \, it has long been recognized as a significant work from Gainsborough’s Suffolk period\, demonstrating his growing interest in the sentimental depiction of simple country folk. The identity of the principal subject is unknown\, although an additional figure study by Gainsborough appears to represent the same man. Traditionally known as ‘A Suffolk Costermonger\,’ this mysterious character was reputedly well known in the Ipswich area. \nA central part of the project has been the conservation and technical examination of the painting\, carried out by Kari Rayner. Through the removal of yellowed varnish and overpaint\, details previously obscured have been made visible. As part of her research\, Kari has also created a partial reconstruction\, revealing how Gainsborough’s canvas was prepared and how the paint was applied. The opportunity to view this reconstruction alongside the original painting affords a rare glimpse into the artist’s working methods.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/thomas-gainsborough-methods-of-making/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170220
DTSTAMP:20161011T121317Z
CREATED:20161010T203758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161011T121317Z
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SUMMARY:French Drawings from the Time of Gainsborough
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition brings together over 40 drawings from public and private collections\, many being on public display for the first time. French Drawings from the Time of Gainsborough covers the period between the Régence (1715 and 1723) and the Revolution (1789–99)\, when French drawing was the undisputed reference point for the quality and the teaching of drawing in Europe. \nCurated by the French eighteenth-century specialist Christoph Vogtherr\, Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle\, the exhibition features the great artistic personalities of the age such as Françoise Boucher (1703–70)\, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721)\, and through their work explores the function \nand development of drawing in France during the period. \nGainsborough was deeply influenced by French drawing and received training from Hubert-François Gravelot (1699–1773) when he was in London in the 1740s. As Christoph Vogtherr notes in the exhibition catalogue: \n‘Artists in England closely observed the French situation\, often with a fair degree of envy. Important commissions in England\, mainly private\, were given to Italian – and increasingly also French – painters\, and English collectors bought French works. The market for engravings was largely shaped by French engravers until well into the second half of the eighteenth century.’ \nThe selection of works on display\, which include figure studies\, landscapes and genre scenes\, are particularly close to Gainsborough’s own works on paper that are held in our permanent collection. \nThis exhibition is an opportunity to see some of the finest examples of French drawings exhibited for the first time and gives a greater understanding of drawing in the age of Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88). \nImage above: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)\, Head of a Girl
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/french-drawings-from-the-time-of-gainsborough/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161017
DTSTAMP:20160425T162803Z
CREATED:20160415T104608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160425T162803Z
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SUMMARY:Dale Devereux Barker & Annabel Ridley
DESCRIPTION:Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop welcomes artists and students from all over Britain and Europe to work with expert and enthusiastic tutors. Our professional studio\, one of the best facilities of its kind in the country\, is proud of the quality of its summer programme and we are delighted that Dale Devereux Barker and Annabel Ridley will again be leading courses this year. \nDale Devereux Barker’s work demonstrates his enjoyment and mastery of printmaking techniques. Full of colour and wit\, Dale’s work features in numerous public and private collections and he is a sought after printmaking tutor who encourages creativity and experiment. \nDale’s lively and ambitious summer course explores all aspects of printmaking with lino including etching and printing with found objects as well as more traditional approaches. Working in a positive and spontaneous atmosphere\, course participants achieve a range of lively and well-made results. \n\nAnnabel Ridley’s screen prints\, often on a large scale\, are also valued by both public and individual collectors. Annabel combines processes to produce rich and varied prints\, layering colour and images to create visual depth. The course Annabel leads uses photo stencils in combination with hand cut and drawn methods. Students work with a variety of materials combining text\, images and layered areas to express their own visual concepts. Compatible with digital processes\, the techniques taught can be applied to a variety of surfaces.\nBoth Annabel and Dale are respected in their fields and showing Annabel’s screen prints\nand Dale’s linocuts together demonstrates the flexibility and fascination of printmaking\nskills. Prints are available to order and for more information call 01787 372958. \nImage top: Dale Devereux Barker\, Watching the Tree\, Linocut\nImage above: Annable Riley\, Meadow\, Screenprint
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/dale-devereux-barker-annabel-ridley/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161017
DTSTAMP:20160621T203816Z
CREATED:20160415T102304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160621T203816Z
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SUMMARY:Face to Face: Portraits from the Andrew Lambirth Collection
DESCRIPTION:The art critic and author Andrew Lambirth bought his first painting as a student at Nottingham University in the late 1970s. Since then he has built up a collection of paintings\, drawings and prints which focuses on the artists he has known and written about. Modern British art is his chief enthusiasm. As he says: ‘I still find it hard to believe that I have on my walls pictures by some of the artists I first read about as a star-struck teenager poring over John Rothenstein’s Modern English Painters.’ \nLambirth’s collection is testament to what can be achieved with a modest budget and assiduous searching. Undoubtedly his connections in the art world have helped. He began his career with a brief spell as a porter at Sotheby’s\, and his acquaintance with a wide range of commercial art galleries must now equal his knowledge of public galleries and museums. He collects by artist but also by theme: one of his chosen themes is trees\, another is self-portraits. \nThis exhibition concentrates on portraits and self-portraits drawn from his collection\, in a variety of media\, from etchings and lithographic prints\, to collage\, oil painting and pencil drawing. The range is wide: from the gentle surrealism of Eileen Agar to the witty Pop art of Allen Jones\, via Maggi Hambling’s ink portrait of her father and Laetitia Yhap’s pregnant nude self-portrait. Artists include Augustus John\, David Jones\, RB Kitaj\, Leon Kossoff\, John Nash and Walter Sickert\, along with a host of lesserknown but intriguing figures. There are both formal pictures made for exhibition\, and others which are quick studies. Here is something for all tastes: fine drawing\, humour\, sonorous colour\, the human condition in all its variety. The only unifying factor is that the collection is one man’s taste. \nImage top: Jeffrey Camp\, Portrait of Laetitia\, Oil on Board\nImage above: Maggi Hambling\, Portrait of my Father\, Ink
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/face-to-face-portraits-from-the-andrew-lambirth-collection/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160720
DTSTAMP:20160714T114359Z
CREATED:20160415T093608Z
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SUMMARY:Dutch Landscapes from the Golden Age
DESCRIPTION:The display of nine landscape paintings from the Dutch Golden Age at Gainsborough’s House is part of an international collaboration with Rijksmuseum Twenthe\, a museum and gallery located in the textile city of Enschede in the Netherlands. This year\, the Dutch museum shows Gainsborough in His Own Words\, Holland’s first exhibition on Thomas Gainsborough\, featuring a number of paintings\, drawings\, books and manuscripts from the Gainsborough’s House collection. Simultaneously\, Gainsborough’s House is showing Dutch Landscapes from the Golden Age\, a collection of paintings by some of the best-known masters from the canon of Dutch art. \nAs a young artist\, Gainsborough was greatly inspired by the Dutch landscape tradition of the seventeenth century. During the 1740s\, while Gainsborough was training in London\, hundreds of Dutch landscapes were passing through the capital’s sale rooms on a weekly basis. Gainsborough was clearly inspired by his exposure to these images\, and evidently sought out opportunities to introduce the Dutch style into his renderings of the British countryside. The selection of works from Rijksmuseum Twenthe show different aspects of Dutch landscape painting which would have captured Gainsborough’s imagination. From the close observation of natural textures and tones exhibited by Jan van Kessel\, to the depiction of expansive wooded landscapes demonstrated by Joris van der Haagen; and from Hendrick ten Oever’s portrayal of rural labourers\, to Jan van Goyen’s sentimental approach to capturing rural rustic life: Gainsborough’s indebtedness to the Dutch tradition can hardly be overstated. \nImage: Joris van der Haagen\, c. 1615-69\, View of Cleves\, ca.1660\, Oil on Canvas
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/dutch-landscapes-from-the-golden-age/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160606
DTSTAMP:20160415T103328Z
CREATED:20160415T103328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160415T103328Z
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SUMMARY:Gainsborough's Sudbury
DESCRIPTION:The renowned British artist Thomas Gainsborough\, born in Sudbury in 1727\, was deeply tied to the area of rural Suffolk in which he grew up.  \nA new exhibition at Gainsborough’s House\, entitled Gainsborough’s Sudbury\, takes an in-depth look at the characters\, buildings and natural features that shaped the formative years of Gainsborough’s childhood. Designed alongside a walking tour leaflet of the same name – available from 5 March 2016 and covering many of Sudbury’s most significant historic sites – this small exhibition highlights the importance of Sudbury to Gainsborough and his legacy to the town.  \nThe works on display come from the Gainsborough’s House Collection\, and include paintings and drawings by Thomas Gainsborough; eighteenth and nineteenth-century landscape scenes depicting rural Suffolk views; and prints by artists such as John Constable\, George C. Finden and John Nixon\, along with a host of lesserknown local figures. Gainsborough’s Sudbury will be on view in the Lift and Study Galleries from 5 March – 5 June 2016\, with selected works remaining on display in the Study Gallery into the summer. Copies of the accompanying walking tour leaflet are available at Gainsborough’s House reception and throughout the region\, in addition to being offered at a range of London venues. \nImage: John Constable\, View of St Peter’s Church\, Sudbury\, 1814\, Pencil on Paper
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gainsboroughs-sudbury/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160606
DTSTAMP:20160415T100854Z
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SUMMARY:Gravelot: Designing Georgian Britain
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition in the Upper Bow Room features an extensive collection of drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot from the Gainsborough’s House permanent collection. The majority of these works were produced as designs for prints\, book illustrations\, decorative arts and other forms of material culture. \nGravelot was a prolific draughtsman\, who came to London from Paris in 1732\, remaining in England until 1745. He became deeply involved in the burgeoning arts scene\, joining some of the capital’s leading artists to establish the St. Martin’s Lane Academy in 1735. Under the leadership of William Hogarth\, he played an important role at the Academy as a drawing master\, teaching a number of pupils including Thomas Gainsborough. \nGravelot’s greatest legacy was his introduction of the ornamental style known as ‘Rococo’ into British art and design. Rococo art\, by nature\, was elaborate\, playful\, filled with delicate colours\, and often witty. Many of Gravelot’s most successful designs encapsulate these essential characteristics. The Bow Porcelain plate illustrated here is no exception. It is decorated with a scene called ‘The Young Archers’ from a series of designs by Gravelot showing children playing various games in outdoor settings. Dating from c.1755\, it is an extremely rare survival and one of the highlights of the exhibition. \nImage: Bow Porcelain Plate\, c.1755\, decorated in red iron\, after a design by Hubert-François Gravelot (1699-1773)
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gravelot-designing-georgian-britain/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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