Gainsborough’s House in Suffolk is going to celebrate the 250th anniversary of John Constable’s birth with a rich and vibrant programme of landscape exhibitions beginning next month
Situated in the Stour Valley – which is famously the birthplace and inspiration of Constable and Thomas Gainsborough, two of Britain’s most influential landscape painters – the museum will host an exhibition featuring both of these artists and others alongside two exhibitions of contemporary art, to show that their influence is still felt by artists today.
Running from 25 April to 11 October, the main exhibition, called Gainsborough, Turner and Constable, is going to feature more than 40 oil paintings, watercolours and drawings by the three primary artists (mainly from private collections), as well as works by their European forerunners and contemporaries.
Key works in the exhibition will include Gainsborough’s Landscape with Cattle, a Young Man Courting a Milkmaid (early 1770s), which has not been exhibited in the UK since 1952; Turner’s large-scale watercolour, Abergavenny Bridge (1799), last on public display in 1799 at the Royal Academy; and (pictured) Constable’s dramatic oil sketch, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (circa 1830s).
For more information and opening times, visit gainsborough.org