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WHAT ARE MEMORY MAPS? MARINA WARNER

Rowland Suddaby, 'Evening View of Sudbury from the South-west', 1940. Museum no. E.1420-1949, given by the Pilgrim TrustRowland Suddaby, 'Evening View of Sudbury from the South-west', 1940. Museum no. E.1420-1949, given by the Pilgrim Trust

Rowland Suddaby, 'Evening View of Sudbury from the South-west', 1940. Museum no. E.1420-1949, given by the Pilgrim Trust

Rowland Suddaby
'Evening View of Sudbury from the South-west'
Sudbury
1940
Watercolour
Museum no. E.1420-1949
Given by the Pilgrim Trust

This is the most dramatic of three views of Sudbury painted by Rowland Suddaby. Suddaby, a native of Surrey, spent a great part of his career painting Suffolk landscapes. This watercolour may pay tribute to Sudbury's most famous son, the painter Thomas Gainsborough. Indeed, after the war, Suddaby settled there, eventually becoming curator of the Gainsborough House.