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SUMMARY:2022 Open Days - A unique opportunity
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to see inside the newly completed Gainsborough’s House before the installations of our exhibitions and displays\, 15th – 18th September 10am – 5pm. \nCome and visit the brand new Galleries and restored historical House and look out from the Landscape Studio to see the landscape that Gainsborough saw nearly 300 years ago. There will be a special offer on memberships available during these four days. Anyone who joins as a Friend\, Medlar or Quince while visiting\, will benefit from 15 months for the price of 12. \nThe shop will be open on all four days from 10am until 5pm.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/2022-open-days/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190622T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191027T170000
DTSTAMP: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:20181116T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181116T123000
DTSTAMP:20181115T123304Z
CREATED:20180723T114132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181115T123304Z
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SUMMARY:TURNER TO ROSSETTI: MASTERPIECES OF 19TH CENTURY ART
DESCRIPTION:16\, 23\, 30 November and 7 December 2018\, 10.30am–12.30pm\n \nThis series of talks by art historian and former Tate curator Richard Humphreys looks in detail at eight masterpieces from the great age of Romantic and Victorian art. \nAs in his previous series looking at works by artists from Sickert to Bacon\, Richard will also consider his chosen works in relation to the artists’ entire careers and their wider historical context. \nThe works discussed are by John Constable\, J.M.W Turner\, Sir Edwin Landseer\, Sir John Everett Millais\, William Holman Hunt\, William Dyce\, William Frith and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. They include Constable’s ‘The Leaping Horse’ about which Richard has recently published a book for the Royal Academy. \nCoffee & pastries included £60 for the series of lectures\nTo book: call 01787 372958 or mail@gainsborough.org
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/turner-to-rossetti-masterpieces-of-19th-century-art/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Featured,Lectures,Talks
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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:20180720T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180722T160000
DTSTAMP:20180314T095817Z
CREATED:20180219T101729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180314T095817Z
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SUMMARY:Wood Engraving with Anne Desmet
DESCRIPTION:Learn the art of wood engraving from a recognised expert in the field. As well as fine line engraving on end-grain boxwood\, Anne will show hand burnishing on Japanese papers\, printing with a press and the creative possibilities of collage using wood engraved prints and unusual printed papers. \nAnne Desmet RA studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art\, Oxford and London’s Central School of Art and Design. She was awarded a scholarship at the British School at Rome in 1989\, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers\, and a Member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Anne is a specialist in wood engravings\, linocuts and mixed-media collage. She has achieved thirty international awards and is represented in museums worldwide. This course coincides with the exhibition Anne Desmet RA: An Italian Journey at Gainsborough’s House from 23 June to October 2018. \nThe course fee is £230 or £210 for Print Workshop members. Please\nbook by telephone on 01787 372958 using your credit or debit card\nor call into reception. \nPlaces are limited to nine adults.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/wood-engraving-with-anne-desmet/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Art classes,Courses,Featured,Print making courses,Summer course
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180706T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220923T170000
DTSTAMP:20241206T115541Z
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SUMMARY:Buy a Brick: Help build the future for Gainsborough’s House
DESCRIPTION:Buy A Brick For Our New Galleries and Crinkle-Crankle Wall\nGainsborough’s House is undertaking a major capital project to establish a national centre for Gainsborough so more people can enjoy the special setting of the artist’s childhood home and garden. The project will double the size of the museum and refurbish and re-display the historic buildings to show more of Gainsborough’s art and to sustain and protect the museum for future generations. \nWith your support\, we will use traditional handmade clay bricks from a local maker which will offer a stunning addition to Sudbury’s conservation area. The new wing will house three exhibition spaces and a creative learning studio with views over the Suffolk countryside. A distinctive crinkle-crankle wall will provide an attractive boundary for the garden\, with its giant 400-year-old Mulberry tree\, alive when Gainsborough was a boy. \nBy sponsoring a brick for £20 you will help to make this possible. The project will use thousands of bricks\, so every sponsor will help and everyone who buys a brick will be thanked in a special commemorative book. \n“Sponsoring bricks is a great way to get involved. These bricks are a local material\, so we are supporting Suffolk industry as well helping to build a beautiful feature for the site. Do join in and perhaps sponsor a brick for each member of your family\,” \nMark Bills\, Director\, Gainsborough’s House. \nHow You Can Get Involved\nIf you would like to buy a brick/s\, or perhaps give one for each member of your family or for friends\, please email mail@gainsborough.org or call 01787 372958 \nDOWNLOAD OUR BUY A BRICK LEAFLET (PDF) \nor buy a brick online at JUST GIVING \nThank you for your support.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/buy-a-brick-help-build-the-future-for-gainsboroughs-house/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Events,Featured,Friends
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180412T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180412T173000
DTSTAMP:20180327T082034Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with…Maggi Hambling
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 12 April 2018 \nTo celebrate the generous gift of a large collection of works by Cedric Morris\, we are delighted to welcome Maggi\nHambling in conversation with Mark Bills\, Director of Gainsborough’s House. Maggi will be sharing her memories of\nCedric Morris\, of life at Benton End\, Hadleigh\, and talking about works currently on show in our exhibition.\nLett-Haines and Morris founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in 1937 at Dedham\, Suffolk and\nthen from 1940 at Benton End\, Hadleigh. Well-known students included Maggi Hambling and Lucian Freud\, both of\nwhom felt they profited greatly from the teaching. Although Morris is perhaps best known for his flower paintings\, his\nportraits\, landscapes and still lifes are equally stunning. \n£12 Refreshments included\nLimited places
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/in-conversation-withmaggi-hambling/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Events,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171003T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171003T103000
DTSTAMP:20170718T103244Z
CREATED:20170705T120032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T103244Z
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SUMMARY:Breakfast Tour - Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury
DESCRIPTION:Join exhibition curator Louisa Brouwer\, Keeper of Art and Place at Gainsborough’s House\, for a behind-the-scenes breakfast tour of the groundbreaking exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June – 8 October 2017)\, exploring the production of woven silk textiles in England from historic Spitalfields to present-day Sudbury. Tours are available on two dates and include coffee and croissants to follow. \nFriday 4 August 2017 and Tuesday 3 October \nImage above: Spitalfields Silk Gown\, c.1755-70\, Norfolk Museums Service
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/breakfast-tour-silk-from-spitalfields-to-sudbury-2/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Breakfast tour,Events,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170926T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170926T170000
DTSTAMP:20170807T092217Z
CREATED:20170807T092217Z
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SUMMARY:300 YEARS OF SILK:  A STUDY DAY AT GAINSBOROUGH’S HOUSE
DESCRIPTION:Join us for ‘300 Years of Silk\,’ an exclusive Silk Study Day at Gainsborough’s House\, hosted by textile specialists Mary Schoeser and Kate Wigley of the School of Textiles\, Coggeshall. Featuring informative lectures\, handling sessions and a gallery tour of the exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June – 8 October 2017) with curator Louisa Brouwer\, this programme will include the opportunity to study silk textiles from the 18th to 20th centuries in close detail\, and will feature a Q&A discussion with the Gainsborough Silk Weaving firm. In the afternoon\, privileged access to the Sudbury silk mill Vanners Silk Weavers will be available with a guided tour led by Vanners chairman David Tooth. Open to all\, this Study Day offers full access to Gainsborough’s House in the historic market town of Sudbury\, Suffolk\, and will include tea\, coffee and biscuits on arrival and a light sandwich lunch to follow. Limited spaces are available. \nTickets: £80 per person \nMorning \nArrive at Gainsborough’s House from 10 am for a 10:30 start: tea\, coffee and biscuits will be available upon arrival\n10:30 – 11:30: Textile Historian Mary Schoeser will deliver a lecture on ‘From Spitalfields to Sudbury\,’ discussing the growth of the silk industry in the East of England\n11:30 – 11:45: Short comfort break\n11:45 – 12:05: Textile Specialist Kate Wigley will lecture on ‘Ipswich to Sudbury\,’ discussing the Sudbury silk weaving firm Gainsborough Silk\n12:05 – 12:45: Q&A session with Kate Wigley and a member of the Gainsborough Silk Weaving firm\, with a short silk handling session and time for discussion\n12:45 – 1:30: Gallery talk with exhibition curator Louisa Brouwer in the exhibition\, Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury\n1:30 – 2:30: Light sandwich lunch served in the Hills Room with time to explore the House \nAfternoon: Group splits into two \n2:30 – 3:45:\nGroup 1 to Vanners Silk Weavers for an exclusive tour of a working silk mill with Vanners chairman David Tooth (with time to explore the Vanners Mill Shop after the tour)\nGroup 2 at Gainsborough’s House for handling sessions with Mary Schoeser and Kate Wigley\, featuring 18th to 20th-century silk textiles\n3:45 – 5:00:\nGroup 2 to Vanners Silk Weavers for an exclusive tour of a working silk mill with Vanners chairman David Tooth (with time to explore the Vanners Mill Shop after the tour)\nGroup 1 at Gainsborough’s House for handling sessions with Mary Schoeser and Kate Wigley\, featuring 18th to 20th-century silk textiles\n5:00: Reconvene at Gainsborough’s House for the Study Day conclusion \nPlease be aware that scheduling maybe subject to minor alterations \nTo book: Please contact Gainsborough’s House on 01787 372958 or mail@gainsborough.org \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/300-years-of-silk-a-study-day-at-gainsboroughs-house/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Events,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170804T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170804T103000
DTSTAMP:20170718T103235Z
CREATED:20170705T114050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T103235Z
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SUMMARY:Breakfast Tour - Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury
DESCRIPTION:Join exhibition curator Louisa Brouwer\, Keeper of Art and Place at Gainsborough’s House\, for a behind-the-scenes breakfast tour of the groundbreaking exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June – 8 October 2017)\, exploring the production of woven silk textiles in England from historic Spitalfields to present-day Sudbury. Tours are available on two dates and include coffee and croissants to follow. \nFriday 4 August 2017 and Tuesday 3 October \nImage above: Spitalfields Silk Gown\, c.1755-70\, Norfolk Museums Service
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/breakfast-tour-silk-from-spitalfields-to-sudbury/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Breakfast tour,Events,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T170000
DTSTAMP:20170528T105750Z
CREATED:20170528T102711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170528T105750Z
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SUMMARY:Original Fine Art Prints
DESCRIPTION:Original Fine Art prints\, created by our talented Gainsborough’s House printmakers\, will be on sale at St Peter’s\, Market Hill\, Sudbury. Come along to see the amazing range of work produced by our members and to purchase your own original piece of art. \nOpening Reception Saturday 3 June 12-2pm \n  \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/original-fine-art-prints-3/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170528T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170528T151500
DTSTAMP:20170510T123059Z
CREATED:20170510T110824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170510T123059Z
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SUMMARY:Sunday Afternoon Gallery Talk  with Artist Julian Perry
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that artist Julian Perry will give a gallery talk of his exhibition Julian Perry: County of Elms on Sunday 28 May at 2.00pm. Join us for a fascinating tour of his work; hear about what inspires him as an artist\, his creative practice and his exciting plans for the future. \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 examines the changing face of the East Anglian landscape also known as ‘Constable Country’.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/sunday-afternoon-gallery-talk-with-artist-julian-perry/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T160000
DTSTAMP:20170509T161402Z
CREATED:20170509T155058Z
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SUMMARY:Come and Celebrate ‘Garlanding Gainsborough’
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday 13 May at Gainsborough’s House as we celebrate the birth of Thomas Gainsborough. With free entry to the House\, guided tours on the hour every hour from 11.0am-3.00pm\, a chance for children to dress up in 18th century costume and craft activities for children\, Garlanding Gainsborough is a great day out for all the family.   Relax in our beautiful garden to the special sound of a Piper. Refreshments will be served in our pop-up café in the Hills Room where we will serve a selection of delicious teas and cakes. \nThomas Gainsborough RA\, was born in Sudbury in May 1727.  In honour of the town’s most famous son\, his fine statue on the Market Hill will be garlanded with flowers. The celebrations will be led by the Deputy Mayor of Sudbury’ Sue Ayres\, and the Director of Gainsborough’s House\, Mark Bills.  A Piper will then lead the way from the statue down to his birthplace\, Gainsborough’s House. Talks by Gainsborough’s House staff on specific paintings will take place on the hour in the galleries. \nGarlanding Gainsborough will be from 11am until 4pm.   There will be something for everyone. Entrance is free\, including admission to Gainsborough’s House.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/come-and-celebrate-garlanding-gainsborough/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured
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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:20161117T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T210000
DTSTAMP:20161031T201705Z
CREATED:20160907T115853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161031T201705Z
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SUMMARY:C. F. Abel Concert: Polish Discoveries
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special event to celebrate Sonia Wronkowska’s extradinary musical discovery. The evening will begin at Gainsborough’s House with three pre-concert talks and then at The Quaker Meeting House for the first performance outside London of the recently discovered music by eighteenth century composers Abel and Lidel. \n  \nSonia Wronkowska made the discovery of at least 23 unknown viola da gamba sonatas by Carl Frederick Abel (1723-87) from the collection of Count Joachim Carl von Maltzan (1733-1817)\, now at the University of Poznań. Maltzan was Prussian ambassador in London from 1776 to 1782 and seems to have been an amateur viola da gamba player\, one of the circle of pupils and admirers of Abel that also included Thomas Gainsborough. What makes the discovery so exciting is that the new sonatas are mostly mature\, sophisticated and virtuoso works\, composed for Abel himself to play in his celebrated London concerts; those known hitherto are nearly all undemanding teaching pieces. Abel was the greatest viola da gamba player of his day\, and was a supremely elegant and accomplished composer\, to be ranked with his friends John Christian Bach and the young Mozart. \n  \nMark Caudle\, who will lead the concert\, divides his time as a viola da gamba virtuoso between East Anglia and Poland\, and has appeared at Suffolk Villages Festival many times\, most recently at this year’s Festival in Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea. \n  \nPre-concert talks 5.30pm\, Gainsborough’s House \nGainsborough and Abel \nMark Bills \nAbel and the Viola da Gamba\nPeter Holman \nAn Exciting Discovery\nSonia Wronkowska \nConcert 7pm\, The Quaker Meeting House\, Sudbury \nMark Caudle\, Viola da Gamba\nTeresa Kamińska\, Cello \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/c-f-abel-concert-polish-discoveries/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Featured,Talks
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161008T210000
DTSTAMP:20160907T120335Z
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SUMMARY:Griff Rhys Jones: Jones and Smith - A Special Benefit Performance
DESCRIPTION:Griff Rhys Jones is airing some thoughts – stories\, anecdotes\, reminiscences and half-remembered events from a long career with his much missed comedy partner Mel Smith. It’s a ramble through a relationship. Join him on this work in progress complete with previously unseen footage. \nThis evening’s show includes a special auction in support of the capital development at Gainsborough’s House. Gainsborough’s House is hugely grateful for the generous support of Griff Rhys Jones. \nTickets are available from the Quay Theatre. All profits go the Gainsborough’s House capital project. \n  \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/griff-rhys-jones-jones-and-smith-a-special-benefit-performance/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Events,Featured,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160824T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160824T150000
DTSTAMP:20160725T102305Z
CREATED:20160725T101816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160725T102305Z
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SUMMARY:Gallery Talk with Robert Dukes
DESCRIPTION:Join artist Robert Dukes\, whose work features in the exhibition Face to Face: Portraits from the Andrew Lambirth Collection\, for a Gallery Talk discussing the paintings\, drawings and prints on display in our summer exhibition. Robert Dukes (b. 1965) studied at Grimsby School of Art and at the Slade\, and now paints mostly still-lifes. In addition to solo exhibitions\, Dukes features regularly in the RA Summer Show and also lectures at The National Gallery.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gallery-talk-with-robert-dukes/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Featured,Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160808T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160812T160000
DTSTAMP:20160708T112218Z
CREATED:20160417T143905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160708T112218Z
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SUMMARY:Lithography - Five Day Course
DESCRIPTION:With Colin Gale\n£275 (members £250)
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/lithography-five-day-course/
LOCATION:Print Workshop\, Gainsborough's House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, Suffolk\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adults,Art classes,Courses,Featured,Print making courses,Summer course
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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:20150818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160201
DTSTAMP:20151116T170536Z
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SUMMARY:Gainsborough's Drawings
DESCRIPTION:The collection of Thomas Gainsborough drawings at Gainsborough’s House is one of the most comprehensive in the world. It includes examples from all stages of the artist’s career but also shows a broad range of subject-matter\, including figure studies as well as landscapes and buildings. Above all\, it demonstrates the extraordinary variety of techniques that Gainsborough adopted from pencil\, chalk and washes to oil varnishes and even skimmed milk. This exhibition includes drawings not often seen and shows the remarkable breadth of Gainsborough’s practice.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gainsboroughs-drawings/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150601
DTSTAMP:20150216T142800Z
CREATED:20150216T142800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150216T142800Z
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SUMMARY:Artists in their studio: Anne Purkiss
DESCRIPTION:Eighteenth century British artists often chose to work in domestic studios\, known as ‘painting rooms’\, rather than professional artists’ studios. Inspired by this practice\, and of Thomas Gainsborough’s own studio\, this exhibition examines the ‘painting rooms’ of today’s Royal Academicians and what it reveals about the creative process of contemporary artists. \nThis exhibition includes around 30 black and white portraits of contemporary artists\, in their homes and studios taken over a period of more than 25 years. \nAnne describes the process of capturing artists in their studios as being akin to collecting butterflies. \nPortraits include David Nash\, Sir Peter Blake and Cornelia Parker.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/artists-in-their-studio-anne-purkiss/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150223
DTSTAMP:20150214T150711Z
CREATED:20150108T125735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150214T150711Z
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SUMMARY:Samuel William Fores
DESCRIPTION:Samuel William Fores (1761-1838) was a printseller and publisher of satire and caricature who flourished from the late eighteenth through to the early nineteenth century\, when revolt in France led to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. London was the centre of production of singly-issued satirical prints which were disseminated around the globe. It is a period considered a ‘golden age’ of caricature and satire\, where the works of James Gillray\, Thomas Rowlandson and Isaac and George Cruikshank took graphic satire to a new level. At the heart of all these images were the printsellers and publishers who commissioned\, printed and distributed these images of political\, social and personal satire. \nAlthough there are numerous studies of the individual artists\, there has not been a monograph of one of the producers\, yet these were the figures who often pulled the strings and steers the course of satire and determined its content. It was also the printsellers who ran the business\, played to the crowd and patrons\, had their own political agendas and chose which artists to patronise. Of all the printsellers of this period\, Samuel Fores was probably the most prolific and certainly his business has the greatest longevity\, surviving to this day\, adapting to the market for over two hundred years. \nThrough Fores\, we are able to discover not only the mechanics of satire production\, but its impact and use in this seminal period.Seeing from the perspective of the entrepreneur we see a more complete picture of graphic satire in its heyday.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/samuel-william-fores/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151102
DTSTAMP:20150818T111745Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20150818T111745Z
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SUMMARY:Karl Friedrich Abel (1723 - 1787) composer & concert impresario
DESCRIPTION:Abel is best remembered as a practitioner and composer of the viola de gamba (a bowed instrument similar to a cello). He was such a talented performer that after his death in 1787 The Morning Post reflected that the viola de gamba would ‘probably die with him.’ Through portraits\, drawings and caricatures this exhibition explores the life and career of Abel and his close relationship with Thomas Gainsborough. \nCentral to the exhibition is the great portrait of Abel painted by Thomas Gainsborough\, on loan from the National Portrait Gallery. Gainsborough was a great friend of Abel and he exchanged paintings and sketches with him\, in return for music and instruments. \n\nAdults: £0\nChildren/Students: £0\nConcessions: £0
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/karl-friedrich-abel-1723-1787-composer-concert-impresario/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Featured
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