Gainsborough, who was born in Suffolk, lived in Ipswich from the time of his marriage, in 1746, until his removal, in 1761), to Bath; and the Suffolk country has left an ineradicable impression on his landscape work. Ipswich is. therefore, celebrating the bi-centenary of his birth with a special exhibition, organized by the Town Council, which will include not only a very fine loan collection of Gainsborough's own work. but examples of the masters whom he influenced and those who influenced him. This exhibition, which will be opened by Prince Henry on Friday of this week, will be the subject of this talk by Sir Charles Holmes, the Director of the National Gallery, tonight.
(Picture on page 583.)