Follow the artists' trail.

Thomas Gainsborough, Holywells Park, Ipswich, (1748 - 1750)

Gainsborough’s House has joined with other museums in Suffolk to produce a map that features local sites associated with the ‘Landscape of Gainsborough and Constable’.

Ten sites in all are identified.  All but one are within easy reach of one another in South Suffolk, and the other, St Mary’s Church in Dedham, Essex, is not far away.  Each has close associations with one or both of the artists.  At some places, such as Gainsborough’s House itself,  it is possible to view the artists’ paintings. Other spots are the subject of their work, were places where they lived, or, in the case of St Mary’s Holton St Mary, are connected with friends.

Holywell Park in Ipswich, one of the spots on the trail and pictured above, was the subject of a commission from local malster, Thomas Cobbald in about 1748.

The map, which includes a short description of each site, is available at Gainsborough’s House.