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Gainsborough's Neighbours

Sydney Gardens · Bath

Gainsborough's Neighbours

Find the painting that made Bath famous before the Baths did.

  • ⏱ 30 min
  • 💷 £0
  • 🥾 Easy

The Holburne Museum sits at the end of Great Pulteney Street in a building that used to be a Georgian pleasure garden's ballroom. Inside is one of the best small collections of Gainsborough anywhere — he painted half of fashionable Bath from a studio a few streets away.

What you’ll do

  1. 1Go in
  2. 2Find a Gainsborough
  3. 3Prove it
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Photo: David A. Russo, CC BY-SA 4.0

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