Heritage Open Days - Crime Club

Free, limited capacity so booking recommended
 

You may be familiar with Romantic landscape painter, Richard Parkes Bonington, who was born in Arnold (and has a Nottingham gallery named after him!). What you may not know is that his father, Richard Bonington, was a Gaoler here at Nottingham County Gaol before resigning to become an artist himself. Join our Head Interpreter in full costume and character for a 30-minute, mini-Crime Club on Bonington’s unusual journey from gaoler to painter, and how this may have inspired his son to become a famous artist.

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Talks are taking place at 2pm and 3pm