Gainsborough's House, the museum and art gallery based in the Sudbury birthplace of portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough, will welcome the public to view the new collections from ...

Gainsborough, the portraitist of Georgian society in the grand manner, was born in Sudbury in 1727 to a family of crepe manufacturers and wool dealers. His first paintings were local landscapes ...

A collection of self-portraits by "major stars of contemporary art" are to go on display at a museum dedicated to Thomas Gainsborough. The 18th Century artist was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, and his ...

The fashion designer Nicole Farhi has created a portrait bust of the British painter Thomas Gainsborough that will be on permanent view at the Gainsborough’s House museum in Sudbury, Suffolk ...

Gainsborough’s House, conversely, is a simple Georgian rowhouse in a cheery Suffolk market town. The relatively modest home in which Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 became a museum in 1956, ...

In 1958, Gainsborough's House Society was formed to purchase the building and create a centre for his work. The museum opened in 1961 and has remained open ever since.

No one comes to Sudbury by accident,” a volunteer in Gainsborough's House Museum tells me as we admire the gallery’s latest exhibition - a selection of 18th-century masterpieces borrowed from ...

Mark Bills, director of Gainsborough’s House, the museum in the artist’s former home in Sudbury, Suffolk, spoke to the Guardian, saying the painting is “one of [Gainsborough’s] great ...

A collection of self-portraits by "major stars of contemporary art" are to go on display at a museum dedicated to Thomas Gainsborough. The 18th Century artist was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, and his ...