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We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

If you are visiting on Tuesday 4 November, please note that there is a special installation taking place in the house and galleries on this day for Remember Nature 2025.

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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

If you are visiting on Tuesday 4 November, please note that there is a special installation taking place in the house and galleries on this day for Remember Nature 2025.

Elisabeth Vellacott

Born 1905 – Died 2002

Vellacott attended the Royal College of Art between 1925 and 1929. At the beginning of her career she worked as a textile and theatre designer. After the war she moved away from design to concentrate on drawing and painting. She was a founder member of the Cambridge Society of Painters and Sculptors in 1954. She exhibited regularly in London and held retrospective exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard in 1981 and 1995.

ARTWORKS

Drawing

Trees, Orchard in Spring, 1967

Elisabeth Vellacott

Trees, Orchard in Spring Find out more

Drawing

Bare Trees and Hills, 1960 (circa)

Elisabeth Vellacott

Bare Trees and Hills Find out more

Drawing

Entangled Trees, 1976

Elisabeth Vellacott

Entangled Trees Find out more

Painting

Lulu, Jug and Apple Tree, c. 1995

Elisabeth Vellacott

Lulu, Jug and Apple Tree Find out more