Past exhibitions
Henry Driver: Water Portals
March 23 - June 23Hubert-François Gravelot: Designing the Georgian Book
March 23 - June 23Philip de László: Master of Elegance
March 23 - June 23In View: Rebecca Salter at Gainsborough’s House – David Pike Drawing Gallery
November 11, 2023 - March 10, 2024In View: Rebecca Salter at Gainsborough’s House – Sudbury Gallery
November 11, 2023 - March 10, 2024James Gillray: Characters in Caricature
November 11, 2023 - March 10, 2024‘Whimsical, perverse, and idle’, The Art of Henry William Bunbury (1750–1811)
June 17, 2023 - October 29, 2023Suzanne Cooper: Paintings and Wood Engravings, 1935–39
June 17, 2023 - October 29, 2023Maggi Hambling origins
June 17, 2023 - October 29, 2023Anna Hennings: Artist in Residence
March 11, 2023 - June 11, 2023Striking Editions: Lithographs from 1970 – 2000
March 11, 2023 - June 11, 2023Gainsborough and the Legacy of Landscape: Masterpieces from Woburn Abbey
March 11, 2023 - June 11, 2023Ignatius Sancho: A Portrait
November 21, 2022 - February 26, 2023Painting Flanders: Flemish Art 1880-1914
November 21, 2022 - February 26, 2023Vivienne Westwood at Gainsborough’s House
September 7, 2019 @ 10:00 am - October 27, 2019 @ 5:00 pmFine Art Prints Exhibition
August 16, 2019 @ 10:00 am - August 21, 2019 @ 5:00 pmMasters of the Golden Age: Gainsborough, Constable, Turner and Lawrence
June 22, 2019 @ 10:00 am - October 27, 2019 @ 5:00 pmOriginal Fine Art Prints
May 11, 2019 @ 10:00 am - May 18, 2019 @ 5:00 pmNicole Farhi: Heads and Hands
February 23, 2019 @ 10:00 am - June 16, 2019 @ 5:00 pmEarly Gainsborough: ‘From the Obscurity of a Country Town’
October 20, 2018 @ 10:00 am - February 17, 2019 @ 5:00 pmGainsborough’s House Print Workshop at the Cambridge Original Printmakers Biennale
August 21, 2018 @ 10:30 am - August 29, 2018 @ 5:00 pmFine Art Prints by Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop
July 20, 2018 @ 8:00 am - July 25, 2018 @ 5:00 pmAnne Desmet RA: An Italian Journey
June 23, 2018 @ 10:00 am - October 14, 2018 @ 5:00 pmCedric Morris at Gainsborough’s House
February 10, 2018 @ 10:00 am - June 17, 2018 @ 5:00 pmOriginal Fine Art Prints
November 7, 2017 @ 10:00 am - December 3, 2017 @ 5:00 pmCreating a National Centre for Gainsborough
October 28, 2017 @ 10:00 am - February 4, 2018 @ 5:00 pmContemporary & Post War British Art Auction
October 20, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pmNew Acquisitions: Lady Helena Rawdon’s Three Pastels
June 17, 2017 @ 10:00 am - October 8, 2017 @ 5:00 pmSilk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury
June 17, 2017 - October 8, 2017Original Fine Art Prints
June 3, 2017 @ 10:00 am - June 10, 2017 @ 5:00 pmJulian Perry: The County of Elms
February 25, 2017 @ 10:00 am - June 11, 2017 @ 5:00 pmConstable at Gainsborough’s House
February 25, 2017 @ 10:00 am - June 11, 2017 @ 5:00 pmThomas Gainsborough: Methods of Making
October 22, 2016 - February 19, 2017French Drawings from the Time of Gainsborough
October 22, 2016 - February 19, 2017Dale Devereux Barker & Annabel Ridley
June 11, 2016 - October 16, 2016Face to Face: Portraits from the Andrew Lambirth Collection
June 11, 2016 - October 16, 2016Dutch Landscapes from the Golden Age
May 5, 2016 - July 19, 2016Gainsborough’s Sudbury
March 5, 2016 - June 5, 2016Gravelot: Designing Georgian Britain
February 27, 2016 - June 5, 2016Poetic Landscape – The Etchings of Samuel Palmer
February 27, 2016 - June 5, 2016Gainsborough’s Drawings
August 18, 2015 - January 31, 2016Artists in their studio: Anne Purkiss
February 28, 2015 - May 31, 2015Samuel William Fores
November 1, 2014 - February 22, 2015William Woollett ‘The Death of General Wolfe’
June 7, 2014 - January 11, 2015Karl Friedrich Abel (1723 – 1787) composer & concert impresario
June 7, 2014 - November 1, 2015
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About Gainsborough’s House
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) was born in Sudbury and baptised at the Independent Meeting-House in Friars Street on 14 May 1727, the fifth son and ninth child of John and Mary Gainsborough. In 1958, Gainsborough’s House Society was formed to purchase the house and establish it as a centre for Thomas Gainsborough. The Museum opened to the public in 1961 and has remained open for over 50 years. The beautiful historic garden at the heart of Gainsborough’s House is maintained by a devoted body of volunteers, who garden exclusively with plants that were available in Gainsborough’s lifetime.
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