Gainsborough’s house was the childhood home of Thomas Gainsborough, and has evolved from its late medieval origins with a new Georgian façade added when the Gainsborough family lived here in the 1720s. Today it is a museum with a new gallery space tracing Gainsborough’s career with a charming series of portraits and landscapes while the early eighteenth-century house contains a series of rooms dedicated to the history of Sudbury and its silk industry, John Constable, Gainsborough and music and a small exhibition looking at the book illustrations of Hubert-François Gravelot.
Details
Venue
Liverpool Street Station, London EC2M 7PY
Event Organisers
Sarah Bowles and Philippa Barton
Cost
Cost of the visit is £110 plus eventbrite booking fee
Cost of the visit for Art Fund Members is £90 plus eventbrite booking fee
Cost of the visit without travel by train is £80 plus eventbrite booking fee
Cost of the visit for Art Fund Members and without travel by train is £60 plus eventbrite booking fee
Programme
9.02am
Train departs from Liverpool Street Station for Sudbury, Suffolk
10.45am
Coffee
11.15am
A guided visit to Gainsborough’s House
The early eighteenth-century house contains a series of rooms dedicated to the history of Sudbury and its silk industry, John Constable, Gainsborough and music and a small exhibition - Hubert-François Gravelot: Designing the Georgian Book.
12.45pm
Lunch
2.00pm
Visit to the exhibition Philip de László, Master of Elegance with Sandra de Laszlo, Founding Editor, de László Catalogue Raisonné
The special exhibition Philip de László, Master of Elegance will feature rarely seen works of this portrait painter who was celebrated across Europe. Born in Budapest in 1869, he decided, in 1907, to move from Vienna and settle in London and over the next thirty years his career flourished as an exponent of the Grand Manner in portraiture as well as being an accomplished landscape painter.
4.32pm
Train departs for London arriving 5.53pm.