BROUGHTON HOUSE GALLERY

1987 - ?

Broughton House Gallery was founded by Rosemary Davidson (1929-2012) at 98 King Street, Cambridge in 1987 and is housed on the ground floor of an 18th-century townhouse with a walled garden. Combining support for local artists with an international perspective, Rosemary introduced contemporary art into many Cambridge homes. At the heart of her programming was Gwen Raverat (1885-1957), granddaughter of Charles Darwin and a pioneer of the English wood-engraving revival and in 2000, the family assigned to Rosemary an archive of more than 500 different engravings and, ever the publisher, she produced three handsome volumes that map Raverat's achievement in that medium. Christopher Cornford (1917-1993), great-great grandson of Charles Darwin, together with that of his aunt, Gwen Raverat and other members of the Darwin/Raverat family including Sophie Jane Gurney (née Raverat, formerly Pryor; 20 December 1919–10 June 2011), Lucy Raverat (nee Pryor 1948-), Amy Eleanor (known as Nelly) Trevelyan (nee Pryor) and Emily Pryor (1942–2008) her three granddaughters, have also exhibited their work at the Broughton House Gallery. In 2008 the gallery was renamed the Gwen Raverat Gallery at Broughton House. Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Broughton House Gallery include Gillian Crossley-Holland, Jenny Goater, and Diane Griffiths.

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