Day-long film soundtrack course for 13+ year-olds Are you a young musician who wants to experiment with writing music for films? Soundtrack Live is a free, day-long workshop where you’ll do exactly that! Over the course of one day, you will get hands on with professional musical equipment, create your own sound design and effects,...
Unknown Artist after Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Ignatius Sancho, c. 1802-20. Gainsborough’s House and National Portrait Gallery. Entrance is included in price of House admission. In 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...
An opportunity to see inside the newly completed Gainsborough’s House before the installations of our exhibitions and displays, 15th - 18th September 10am - 5pm. Come 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...
Gainsborough’s House is delighted to invite you to the 2nd of two special lectures, kindly given by John Sheeran in support of Reviving an Artist’s Birthplace: A National Centre for Gainsborough. John is a former Curator of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London and has organised exhibitions worldwide. He is well known in East Anglia for his...
Buy A Brick For Our New Galleries and Crinkle-Crankle Wall Gainsborough’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...
Child £2, Adult £3 (includes admission to the galleries)
With Dale Devereux Barker £275 (members £250)
Child £2, Adult £3 (includes admission to the galleries)
Tour of the current exhibition Face to Face - Portraits from the Andrew Lambirth Collection with Louisa Brouwer, Keeper of Art and Place Coffee and Croissants included.
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...
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...
