Holburne Museum
Museum closed for
refurb re-open 2010
Great Pulteney Street
Bath
BA2 4DB
The Holburne is one of the country’s great small museums which house a rich
collection of paintings, silver, sculpture, furniture and porcelain, with
important works by Gainsborough, Guardi, Stubbs and Turner.
The museum is
housed in the eighteenth-century Sydney Hotel and set within the park of Sydney
Gardens
The Holburne Museum houses the art collection formed by Sir William Holburne in
19th century Bath. Widely known for his silver and paintings, Sir William also
collected Italian bronzes, maiolica, porcelain, glass, furniture and portrait
miniatures. His legacy has been enriched with landscapes by Guardi and Turner,
portraits by Stubbs, Ramsay, Zoffany and Gainsborough. Bath connections are well
represented by Angelica Kauffmann’s portrait of Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Hone’s
miniature of Beau Nash, the city’s famous Master of Ceremonies and Joseph
Plura’s masterpiece Diana and Endymion, made in Bath in 1752.
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