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The Georgian House Museum

Open to the public

Museum or gallery in Bristol

24 artworks

Part of Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives

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A period house museum, originally built c.1790 for a wealthy sugar merchant and now furnished and displayed as a typical late 18th-century town house. The house includes a drawing room, eating room, study, kitchen, laundry and housekeeper’s room. There is a small display on slavery and sugar plantations.

Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5RR England

general.museum@bristol.gov.uk

0117 921 1363

The Georgian House Museum is open Tuesdays to Sundays from 10.30am to 4pm from 1 July to 31 August, then Wednesdays and Thursdays and Saturdays and Sundays from 1 September to 31 October, and is closed during the winter from 1 November to 5 April.

http://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/georgian-house-museum

Artworks

  • Flowers in a Sculptured Vase
    Flowers in a Sculptured Vase Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636–1699) (school of)
    The Georgian House Museum
  • Elias Vander Horst
    Elias Vander Horst Jeremiah Theus (1719–1774)
    The Georgian House Museum
  • Richard Tombs
    Richard Tombs John Simmons (1715–1780)
    The Georgian House Museum
  • Mrs Charles Hodges
    Mrs Charles Hodges William Armfield Hobday (1771–1831)
    The Georgian House Museum
  • Hotwells and Rownham Ferry
    Hotwells and Rownham Ferry William Williams (1727–1791)
    The Georgian House Museum
  • Portrait of an Artist and a Woman Sitter
    Portrait of an Artist and a Woman Sitter Oldfield Bowles (1739–1810) (attributed to)
    The Georgian House Museum
  • View of St Vincent's Rocks and the Hotwells
    View of St Vincent's Rocks and the Hotwells Thomas Smith (c.1720–1767) (attributed to)
    The Georgian House Museum
  • 17 more

Not every artwork is on display – if you would like to see a particular work, contact the venue before your visit

Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives has another 1,311 artworks

Artists

  • Elias Vander Horst
    Jeremiah Theus (1719–1774)
  • Hotwells and Rownham Ferry
    William Williams (1727–1791)
  • Cupid and Flowers
    Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer (1636–1699)
  • The Dockyard from Cremyll
    Nicholas Pocock (1740–1821)
  • The Thames: The Strand Shore and Westminster Bridge
    Samuel Scott (c.1702–1772)
  • Hannah Ellis, Mrs Joseph Metford (1722–1798)
    Richard Phelps (1710–1785)
  • Self Portrait in Van Dyck Dress at an Easel
    Oldfield Bowles (1739–1810)
  • A Wooded Landscape with a Stream and a Fisherman
    Thomas Smith (c.1720–1767)
  • Diogenes Throwing away His Bowl
    George Lambert (c.1700–1765)
  • Head of a Girl Wearing a White Hat
    William Hoare (1707–1792)
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