Poetic Landscape – The Etchings of Samuel Palmer

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

Samuel Palmer (1805– 81), painter and printmaker, is one of Britain’s greatest artists of the Romantic period. He is perhaps best known for his visionary paintings created during the time he lived in Shoreham, Kent, and his close friendship with the artist, printmaker and poet William Blake (1757–1827). This exhibition of Palmer’s complete etchings shows the playfulness, beauty and...

Gravelot: Designing Georgian Britain

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

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. Gravelot was a prolific draughtsman, who came to London from Paris in...

Gainsborough’s Sudbury

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

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. A 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...

Print like Palmer

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

Child £2, Adult £3 (includes admission to the galleries)

Monoprints – Taster Day

The Print Workshop Gainsborough's House , 46 Gainsborough Street , Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom

£40, including basic materials

£40

Collagraphs – Three Day Course

The Print Workshop Gainsborough's House , 46 Gainsborough Street , Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom

With Carl Borges £190 (members £170)

Dutch Landscapes from the Golden Age

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

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...

William Blake – Study Day

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

Starts 10.30am. Includes talk, lunch and afternoon demonstration.

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