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  • The English Garden

    The Green Muse

    Aug 10, 2022 5 minutes

    Gardens have proved a potent source of subject matter throughout art history, and have inspired some of the most celebrated imagery of all time. Says Gabriele Finaldi, director of London’s National Gallery: “Gardens and flowers are depicted in several of our most beloved treasures, notably Monet’s paintings at Giverny and Van Gogh’s extraordinary Sunflowers.” For the National Gallery’s bicentenary celebrations in 2024, Monet’s The Water-Lily Pond will be on loan to another venue in the UK (to be announced shortly), while a “surprise announcement” will be made closer to the time regarding Sunflowers.

    This is, therefore, a propitious time for revisiting some of England’s more home-grown garden-related art. Two seminal gardens inspired leading English artists. Benton End in Suffolk, with its 16th-century, timber-framed house, was home to artist-plantsman Sir Cedric Morris from 1940 to 1982. Slightly earlier, at Charleston in Sussex, members of the

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