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Please join us for the Friends of Penlee House Christmas Shopping Evening on Wednesday 6 December 5.30pm – 7.30pm at Penlee House Gallery & Museum.

The image is of Thomas Maddrell, sometime Canon of Truro Cathedral and vicar at Gulval for twenty years until his death in 1932 This wood-block

The latest acquisition by the Friends of Penlee House is a delightful oil on panel by Elizabeth Forbes, entitled Autumn Breeze.The painting was last exhibited

Have five minutes while you’re waiting for the bus? Micro-volunteer by tagging artworks with descriptive words. Penlee House is joining in with Art UK’s Tagger

One lesser-known aspect of the Lamorna story that will feature in the Lamorna Colony Pioneers exhibition will be a display of Lamorna Pottery.There have been

Two portraits of local artist Midge Bruford were on display at Penlee’s exhibition, Artists by Themselves. In the first, possibly dating from the late 1930s,

Thanks to the generous support of the Friends, the Gallery has been able to add this remarkable work to the collection. Entitled ‘Something Wrong’, the

Laura Knight gives the best description of Phyllis Yglesias, known as Pog, in her first autobiography as “our joy and delight, a wild young thing

When we hear the name Eileen Mayo many of us think of Dod Procter’s serene portrait painted c.1926-30 and on long-term loan to Penlee. Shown

By Lawrence Hendra In 1782, John Opie (or ‘The Cornish Wonder’, as he became known), leapt out of his carriage at Buckingham Palace with four