Gainsborough's House

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Gainsborough's House

February 2019

Gainsborough's House, the only artist's birthplace open to the public in Britain, was established as a museum in 1961. It shows a large collection of Gainsborough's paintings, drawings and prints as well as temporary exhibitions. Gainsborough's House is a typical example of Suffolk vernacular architecture, constructed from a timber frame with wattle and daub in-fill. The building was originally two cottages that were joined together in about 1520. A brick facade was added in the 1720s by the artist's father. Rear elevation in pencil and watercolour. Part of the permanent collection Gainsborough’s House Sudbury.

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"Peter provided a watercolour painting for me in support of a planning application for a sensitive conversion of an early 15th Century timber-frame barn. The illustration was perfectly executed, in the appropriate manner and perspective, to convey a meaningful portrayal of the proposed design concept. It was, above all, a work of art rather than a computer construction."

Graeme Stevenson, Graeme Stevenson Architects Winchester Hampshire