During summers in rural Worcestershire, John Singer Sargent stepped away from formal society portraiture and embraced open-air painting. Time spent among the Broadway colony of artists encouraged looser brushwork and a fresh engagement with light, gardens and landscape. Paintings created here include the celebrated Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, capturing children lighting lanterns at dusk.
Works gathered from major national collections reveal a restless, curious painter experimenting beyond the studio. The story also introduces the creative circle around him, from designers and composers to fellow painters shaping the county’s artistic legacy.
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Address
Foregate Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1 1DT
01905 25371
Opening times
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am – 4pm. Sundays, 10am – 3pm. Closed Mondays and bank holidays.