Marianne North Gallery (Royal Botanic Gardens)

Address: | Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB |
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Phone: | 020-8332 5655 |
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Opening times: | Daily from 9:30; closing time varies according to season (approx. 16:00 in winter, 18:00 in summer) |
How to get there: | Tube: Kew Gardens |
Entry fee: | Admission charge |
Additional information: | Cafés and shop |
Situated, at the artist’s request, in a quiet corner of the Royal Botanic Gardens, away from the main gate and other places of refreshment, the Marianne North Gallery survives almost unaltered since the day of its opening on 9 June 1882. Red brick with a veranda, typical of European dwellings of that period in India, the building was expressly designed to display Marianne North’s oil paintings, 832 studies of nature from life in countries all over the world, executed between 1871 and 1885. Many were painted in circumstances of considerable discomfort and hardship, so Marianne North also wanted the gallery to remind visitors of the hospitality offered to the weary traveller in far-flung places, stipulating to that end that the gallery should serve ‘tea or coffee and biscuits, nothing else, at a fair price’. |
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