- Wikidata identifier:
- Q16981573
- Also known as:
- 46 Gainsborough Street, Gainsboroughs House, Gainsborough's House Museum
- Instance of:
- historic house museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 687
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q16981573/
Collection-level records:
-
Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Fine Art
An important collection of drawings by Thomas Gainsborough from all periods of his career. These include: ‘Landscape with a Farm’ 1747, pencil; ‘Peasants going to Market’ 1770-4, black & white chalk stump with grey and brown washes and gouache; ‘A Study for Diana and Acteon’ c.1785, black & white chalk with grey and grey black washes and gouache; ‘Study of a Rustic’ c.1785, black chalk and stump with white chalk; A drawing of his two daughters. Gainsborough’s House has an extensive collection of prints reproducing the artist’s paintings and drawings. In addition, it has a number of prints made by the artist. Highlights include ‘The Suffolk Plough’ c.1754, etching; ‘Peasant reading a Tombstone’ 1780, soft ground etching with aquatint; Gainsborough’s House has works by other artists that relate to Gainsborough including work by Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman and Gainsborough Dupont. It also has paintings and drawings which relate to the building and to Sudbury by artists such as J Heins and John Constable and an extensive collection of works by Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811). Oil paintings by Gainsborough include: Wooded landscape with cattle by a pool, 1782; Charles Crokatt, William Keeble and Peter Darnal Muilman in a landscape, about 1748 (jointly owned with the Tate Gallery); a small portrait of his wife; Descent from the cross after Rubens from the late 1760s.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC