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, suggesting that neither the art nor the financial outlay need be too painful. At the heart of her programming was Gwen Raverat (1885-1957), granddaughter of Charles Darwin and a pioneer of the English wood-engraving revival, whose visual work had been overshadowed by the continuing success of Period Piece, her memoir of a Cambridge childhood. 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, was held at the Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge in 2004. 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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