Gainsborough's House: The Collection

The Collection Biography Chronology Suggested Reading Education Publications	*Thomas Gainsborough* *A selection from the Collection at Gainsborough's House*
	A selection from the Collection at Gainsborough's House Gainsborough's House shows more of the artist's work at any one time than any other museum in the world. It has a lively acquisition and display policy and there is always something new to see. Here are some of the highlights. Paintings, Drawings and Prints by Thomas Gainsborough and Works by other artists
	Paintings
	Portrait of Peter Darnell Muilman, Charles Crokatt and William Keable in a landscape, c.1750 oil on canvas, 76.3 x 63.5cm Jointly owned with the Tate Gallery. Purchased with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund, and an anonymous donation given through the National Art Collections Fund and the Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust, July 1993
	Portrait of Abel Moysey M.P. 1771 oil on canvas, 234.5 x 144cm
	Wooded Landscape with Cattle by a Pool, 1782 oil on canvas, 120.4 x 147.6cm Purchased with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund, the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, and many other trust funds by Suffolk County Council and transferred to Gainsborough's House Society, 1987-8.
	Works on Paper Drawings and prints are not on permanent display. Some are available to see in the Study Gallery while regular exhibitions of Gainsborough drawings and of other works on paper are held.
	Landscape with a Farm, c. 1747 pencil, 27 x 34.6cm Purchased with the help of the MGC/V&a Purchase Grant Fund and the National Art Collections Fund and an anonymous donation made through the National Art Collections Fund and Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust and the National Art Collections Fund, July 1994.
	Peasants going to Market, 1770-4 black and white chalk, stump with grey and brown washes and extensively heightened with white chalk and gouache on prepared brown paper, 4.2 x 53.8cm. Purchased through the generous co-operations of Timothy Clode Esq. with grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, an anonymous donation made through the National Art Collections Fund and Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust, the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the National Art Collections Fund, January 1993.
	A Study for Diana and Acteon, c. 1785 black and white chalk with grey and grey-black washes and gouache on buff paper, 25.6 x 33.3.cm. Purchased though Suffolk County Council with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, an anonymous donation made through the National Art Collections Fund and Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust, the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the National Art Collections Fund, March 1996.
	*Study of a Woodman c. 1787* black chalk and stump with white chalk, 43.3 x 31.3cm. Purchased with the help of the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, an anonymous donation made through the National Art Collections Fund and Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust, the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and the National Art Collections Fund, June 1999
	Prints Gainsborough's House has an extensive collection of prints by or after Gainsborough as well as a number of prints after other artists.
	'The Suffolk Plough' c.1754 etching, 35.5 x 40.5cm Presented by Cavendish Morton, October 1987
	Peasant reading a Tombstone, 1780 soft-ground etching with aquatint, 29.6 x 39.3 cm Purchased with the Gainsborough Bicentenary Festival Fund, a grant from the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, an anonymous donation made through the the National Art Collections Fund and Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust, July 1989.
	Works by other artists Gainsborough's House has works that relate to Gainsborough by, Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, Gainsborough Dupont and others. It also has paintings and drawings that relate to the building or to Sudbury by artists such as J. Heins and John Constable. There is an extensive collection of work by Henry William Bunbury.
	Gainsborough Dupont (1745-97) 'Rural Courtship' c. 1795 oil on canvas, 126 x 101 cm Purchased with an anonymous donation made through the National Art Collections Fund and Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust and a grant from the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, December 1996.
	Henry William Bunbury (1750-1811) Patience in a Punt 1780s watercolour over pencil, 20.4 x 32.2 cm Purchased with an anonymous donation given through the National Art Collections Fund and the Gainsborough's House Society Development Trust and a grant from the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, April 1994.
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