Gainsborough's House.
"Sudbury, a quiet market town in East Suffolk was the
birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough. The little town is
situated amidst scenery not of striking beauty, in
somewhat flat and uninteresting country, but it boasts
of rich meadows, gentle, well-wooded hills and tranquil
valleys in which glisten the clear waters of the River
Stour, flowing by banks bordered with willows. To those who can
appreciate the landscapes of Gainsborough and Constable
there is great charm in this part of East Anglia, and when
visiting Sudbury and East Bergholt they will be constantly reminded of these artists.
"Suffolk," Gainsborough is reported to have said,
" made me an artist," and until the close of his busy life
he found the material for all his best landscape work in
the studies and sketches he made when a youth at Sudbury, and in later life at Ipswich." Extract from "Thomas
Gainsborough" (Open Library)
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Address:
Gainsborough's House,
46 Gainsborough Street,
Sudbury,
Suffolk CO10 2EU
Website: www.gainsborough.org
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