The weekly feature rounds up the latest updates in museum appointments, openings, funding and new exhibitions from across the UK.

A portrait by renowned 18th Century English artist Thomas Gainsborough has gone on public display for the first time. The oil painting depicts the aristocrat Thomas Brooke, who was born in 1754 ...

Thomas Gainsborough's painting Going to Market, Early Morning, is worth £8m An oil painting by English landscape artist Thomas Gainsborough could leave Britain's shores unless a UK buyer comes ...

Schwarzman has allegedly adopted a direct approach to building his collection, making private offers without seeking export ...

The birthplace of 18th Century artist Thomas Gainsborough has launched an appeal to help preserve its collection of "culturally significant" works. Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, Suffolk ...

National Gallery painting worth £24 million 'slashed with drill bit by patient who fled psychiatric hospital' ...

Private equity chief spends millions on 18th century society portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough ...

Gainsborough House, the childhood home of the celebrated British artist Thomas Gainsborough, is about to reopen in Sudbury, Suffolk. The space, which has been undergoing thorough refurbishment and ...

This family portrait is the largest painting in Bath by Bath's greatest artist, Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough moved to Bath from Ipswich in the late 1750s and took up residence by the Abbey.