Displays At the heart of the Cotswolds, The Ashmolean Museum Broadway combines an important historic house with displays which include period furniture; ceramics and paintings. Visitors to the museum at Tudor House can travel through the centuries, from the seventeenth to the present day. Most of the objects on display are on loan from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and include works by Gainsborough, Reynolds and significant pieces from local craftsmen such as Sheldon tapestries and Winchcombe Pottery. Special Exhibitions Our first temporary exhibition is by fine furniture craftsman, Armando Magnino. The two pieces he has on display have been developed as part of projects by Gordon Russell Museum, Broadway and William Morris Museum, London. http://www.magnino.co.uk Forthcoming Exhibitions John Singer Sargent: Portraits and Travels 30 May - 27 July 2014 John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was one of the most cosmopolitan artists of the nineteenth century. Born in Florence to American parents, he studied in Paris, where he enjoyed his first success. The scandal surrounding the exhibition of his Portrait of Mme X in 1884 led him to come to England to seek a more broad-minded public. His celebrated picture, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (Tate) was painted at Broadway, where he spent the autumn months of 1885 and 1886. In later years, he became the most celebrated portrait painter on both sides of the Atlantic, and an accomplished and highly individual landscape artist. This small display of rarely exhibited drawings and watercolours, belonging to the Ashmolean Museum and to private collections. They range from intimate pencil studies of his family and close friends, a characteristically formal crayon portrait of Mary Anderson, and luminous watercolours of landscapes in Venice and elsewhere, as well as a remarkable study of Crocodiles. Jeremy Houghton ‘Retrospective’ 1 August – Jan 2015 http://www.jeremyhoughton.co.uk Jeremy Houghton is an internationally acclaimed visual artist. Working mostly in oils and watercolours his work explores movement, space and time. One of the most collectable UK artists of his generation, his past commissions include HM The Queen and in 2013 he was Artist in Residence for HRH The Prince of Wales. His work has been exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries throughout Europe, The USA, South Africa and India. He was an official artist of the London 2012 Olympic Games and is widely recognised as the UK's leading sporting artist.