News from Fairlynch:
Museum volunteers have expressed delight at the success of the Raleigh 400 exhibition which was opened on 28 May by the Lord Lieutenant of Devon David Fursdon, seen above. Photo: Michael Downes
The highlight is Sir John Millais' 1870 masterpiece depicting young Walter Raleigh and his half-brother Humphrey Gilbert on Budleigh's famous pebble beach.
Photo: Lizzie Mee
Cllr Wright admires Millais’ masterpiece
Photo: Michael Downes
The painting, on loan from Tate London, has
been exhibited only three times in the town where it was first created, but
local interest in one of Devon's most celebrated and enigmatic historical
figures remains as intense as ever.
Rosemary Griggs, in costume as Sir Walter
Raleigh’s mother Katherine Champernowne, greets visitors to Fairlynch Photo: Lizzie Mee
Record numbers of visitors have been
welcomed at the museum following coverage of the exhibition on BBC Spotlight.
Other treasures on display included a second Millais painting of the artist’s
son Everett, a first edition of Raleigh’s History
of the World and a pair of highly decorative 1590s gloves associated with
Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite.
I think Lady Clinton may have been asking me about my
pearl earring.
Photo: Lizzie Mee
‘It was a
hugely successful and joyous occasion,’ said Fairlynch Chairman Trevor
Waddington. ‘The Lord Lieutenant was highly impressed with the exhibition
and with the whole museum.’
Fine weather contributed to the success of
the opening event attended by 150 invited guests. They were offered a Raleigh 400
ale specially created by Dartmoor-based Black Tor Brewery, and generously donated for the event by brewer and Budleigh resident Jonathon Crump
Photo: Lizzie Mee
There was also entertainment from the locally-based
Tudor Dance Group Photo: Lizzie Mee
Period recorder music was provided by the
Pinwood Players. Photo: Lizzie Mee
Rosemary Griggs with Sue Minter, Heritage Lottery Fund Committee Member for the South West.
Fairlynch Museum has received an HLF grant in exchange for undertaking an ambitious educational programme so that children from local schools can learn about the Millais 'Boyhood' painting and Sir Walter Raleigh's place in history.
The afternoon event was the tableau re-enacting Millais’
creation of The Boyhood of Raleigh. Photo by Rob Coombe, Lyme Bay Photography
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