The Sidney Sime Gallery

at Worplesdon Memorial Hall
   

   

Gallery Open Days 2013


The Gallery will be open to the public, without the need for any appointment, on the following days during Summer and Autumn 2013:

  • Monday 27th May (2 - 4.30 pm)
  • Friday 13th September (2 - 4.30 pm) *
  • Saturday 14th September (10 - 4 pm) *
  • Sunday 15th September (10 - 4 pm) *

* as part of Guildford Heritage Weekend.

If you would like to visit on another date, please contact the caretaker at Worplesdon Memorial Hall.


The Sidney Sime Gallery at Worplesdon, near Guildford in Surrey, houses a major collection of the fascinating and highly characteristic work of Sidney Sime (1867-1941), the famous artist, illustrator and caricaturist.

 

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Sidney Herbert Sime

  

Sime owned a cottage at Worplesdon - Crown Cottage - and spent much of his time there during the latter part of his life.


The gallery is on the first floor of Worplesdon Memorial Hall and was opened in 1956 with proceeds from the sale of Crown Cottage, on the death of Sime's widow Mary.  Mary bequeathed all her late husband's pictures that remained in her possession to the Trustees of the Worplesdon Memorial Hall for the creation of such a gallery.

Paintings and drawings

There are 88 hung works on view, including theatrical caricatures, caricatures of local Worplesdon residents and landscape paintings in oil and watercolour. In total there are over 500 catalogued items.

To view a selection of our pictures online, go to our online gallery page.  The oil paintings in our collection can also be viewed in their entirety through the BBC's Your Paintings website.

Furniture

The gallery also contains some furniture used frequently by Sime:  a gate-leg table, which contains two portfolios of Sime's work and also various publications of interest;  a Windsor chair;  and a tallboy containing his original sketch books, numerous oil paintings, etchings, watercolour sketches, drawings and caricatures, and press cuttings.

Visiting the gallery

For details of where we are and how to visit us, see our visiting the gallery page.

Worplesdon Memorial Trustees

The Memorial Hall and the contents of the Sidney Sime Gallery are in the care of the Worplesdon Memorial Trustees, a registered charity.  More details can be found on the Worplesdon Memorial Hall website.

       © Worplesdon Memorial Trustees 2013