Geffrye Museum Exhibition

The Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum, is in 18th-century former almshouses in Hoxton, London.

Michael’s portrait of PD James is on loan to an exhibition of British paintings and drawings of English, middle class, urban domestic spaces ,1914-2006 at the Geffrye Museum.

The portrait, which is on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, was painted in 1997 in the author’s Holland park home. The exhibition which is the third part of a major survey of the genre runs from 16th October 2007 until 4th February 2008

Set in former almshouses, the museum uses a series of fine period rooms to present the history of the English domestic interior from 1600 to the present day.

Portrait in oils of the distinguished English novelist
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