Painting Flanders @ Gainsborough's House
Mon 21 Nov
|Gainsborough's House
The doors of Gainsborough's House reopen with 'Painting Flanders' following an ambitious redevelopment project.
Time & Location
21 Nov 2022, 10:00 – 26 Feb 2023, 17:00
Gainsborough's House, District, 46 Gainsborough St, Sudbury CO10 2EU, UK
About the Event
Exhibitions, Museum, Shop and Cafe open daily 10am - 5pm
Ticket Prices: gainsborough.org/your-visit/opening-hours-tickets
About 'Painting Flanders'
Suffolk and Flanders are not far apart as the crow flies. There have been connections between them for centuries, ever since Flemish merchants came to Suffolk to buy the coveted wool of Suffolk sheep for Flemish weavers to turn into high-quality cloth. By Gainsborough’s day, in both England and Flanders, new manufacturing processes are already heralding the Industrial Revolution – and the overcrowded towns, the stink and the noise it brings with it.
It’s said that in sixteenth-century Flanders the painter Pieter Bruegel would often make field trips into the Flemish countryside, dressed as a peasant. Back in his studio he paints his famous peasant scenes, full of wry observations. A century later, David Teniers captures that same rural character in his charming pictures of fairs and tavern interiors. And in between…
