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...
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. Born in East Bergholt, not far from...
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. Throughout 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. This exhibition displays Julian’s most recent...
Gainsborough's House Print Workshop members exhibit their work at their annual exhibition held at St Peter's, Market Hill, Sudbury.
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,...
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...
You can bid online today at the-saleroom.com/gainsborough LEADING 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. The Contemporary &...
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...
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.
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...
Anne Desmet RA is an artist who specialises in wood engravings, linocuts and collages. Significantly she is only the third wood engraver ever to be elected to the membership of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in its 250-year history. This exhibition at Gainsborough’s House brings together selected highlights from her Italian prints with the...
Members of the Gainsborough's House Print Workshop exhibit their work at The Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings. Shops & Galleries open: Monday–Saturday 10am–5.30pm Sunday 10.30am–4.30pm (browsing from 10am)
