Complementing the works by Constable in Christchurch Mansion’s Wolsey Art Gallery are several by another great Suffolk artist, Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788). Gainsborough moved to Ipswich in 1752 and began to establish himself as a portrait painter.

The Ipswich collection of Gainsboroughs consists of:

• Holywells Park, Ipswich
  c.1748-50 Oil on canvas
• A Pool in the Wood
  1753 
Oil on canvas
• Wooded Landscape with Gipsies round a Camp Fire (The Gypsies)

  1759 (original etching c.1753-4)
• A Country Cart crossing a Ford
  Oil on canvas
• William Wollaston
  (1730 - 1797), c.1759, oil on canvas 

In addition, there are several drawings by Constable and Gainsborough contained in a special case in the Mansion. Gainsborough’s Cottage Door with Girl and Pigs is on loan to the Netherlands.