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51°28′47″N 0°01′02″E / 51.4796°N 0.01733°E / 51.4796; 0.01733

For the house designed by Richard Norman Shaw in Holland Park, see Woodland House.
Woodlands House

Woodlands House is a Grade II* listed[1] Georgian villa, next door to Mycenae House, Mycenae Road, in the Westcombe Park area of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, in southeast London. From 1972 to 2003 the building served as a library and art museum, known as the Woodlands Art Gallery. Today it houses a Steiner School.

History

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The building was built on a site leased in 1774 from Sir Gregory Page by John Julius Angerstein (a Lloyd's underwriter). Angerstein made his fortune in the East Indian trade as well as having West Indian business links, including a third share in a slave plantation in Grenada.[2] His art collection was bought in 1824 to form the nucleus of the National Gallery, London. Angerstein occupied a house in nearby Crooms Hill, Greenwich, while the villa was constructed over the next two years to a design by local architect George Gibson[3] and was completed in the summer of 1776.[4]

It was described in Daniel Lysons' The Environs of London (1796):

"Woodlands, the seat of John Julius Angerstein, Esq. (between East-Combe and West-Combe), occupies a situation uncommonly beautiful. The surrounding scenery is very picturesque; and the distant view of the river, and the Essex shore, is broken with good effect by the plantations near the house. The grounds were laid out, and the house built about the year 1772, by the present proprietor, who has a small but valuable collection of pictures; among which Sir Joshua Reynolds's celebrated portrait of Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy, the Venus, a well known picture, by the same artist; a fine portrait of Rubens, by Vandyke; and a very beautiful landscape, with cattle, by Cuyp, claim particular notice. The greenhouse is to be remarked for its collection of heaths."[5]

This photo of Woodlands House appeared in the November 1897 edition of Cassier's Magazine as part of an article about Alfred Yarrow.

Angerstein extended Woodlands in the late 18th century, adding a west wing, conservatory, out-buildings and a stable and riding school (most of these were demolished after the sale of the Westcombe estates in 1876). After Angerstein's death in 1823, the property became the family home of his son John Angerstein (who was elected Liberal MP for Greenwich in 1835 and devoted much of his time to development of the Angerstein estates).

In the late 1890s, the property was purchased by the shipbuilder Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow. It became the Yarrow family home and later, during the First World War, served as a hostel for Belgian refugees. In the 1920s, it was sold to a Catholic religious order, the Little Sisters of the Assumption, for use as a convent and novitiate; during the 1930s, an adjacent building (today Mycenae House) was constructed to expand the novitiate accommodation.[6]

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Acquired by the Royal Borough of Greenwich in 1967 after the Little Sisters relocated to Paddington, the house opened as a local history library and contemporary art gallery — known as Woodlands Art Gallery — in 1972. It held an extensive range of solo and group exhibitions.[7]

Exhibitions

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Dates Title Artist(s)
1974 John Julius Angerstein and Woodlands, 1774-1974 : a bicentenary exhibition celebrating the building of Woodlands by John Julius Angerstein[8]
25 July - 6 August 1974 Four artists from Kent[9]
  • Dorothy Fairweather-Walker
  • Julia Easterling
  • Brian Hargreaves
  • Joyce Hargreaves
4 January to 2 February 1975 Watercolours from 1840 to 1914 of places in the Borough of Greenwich[10]
23 August - 23 September 1975 Drawings Siegfried Kühl[11]
10 January - 10 February 1976 Victorian Street Scenes: Mr Coulthurst's Salford, 1889-1894, Mr Spurgeon's Greenwich, 1884-1887 (a Magic Lantern Lecture): An Exhibition of Photographs[12]
14 February - 14 March 1976 Valentines: Greetings Cards[13]
20 March - 2 May 1976 Design Review (V&A)[14]
6 May - 1 June 1976 Mary Rhodes and her embroiderers and Tapestry Weavers Mary Rhodes[15]
5 - 27 June 1976 Paintings and Drawings[16]
  • Jean Cooke
  • Diana Cumming
9 October - 9 November 1976 Paintings[17]
  • Ian McGugan
  • Ed Perera
13 November - 14 December 1976 Paintings, drawings and prints[18]
  • Frederick Palmer
  • Max Middleton
18 December 1976 - 18 January 1977 Watercolours and drawings of places in the Borough of Greenwich Llwyd Roberts[19]
3 April - 1 May 1977 Postcards Collection of Richard Moy[20]
11 June - 12 July 1977 Women's International Art Club [21]
12 January - 14 February 1978 Exhibition[22]
  • Clem Beer
  • Roger Butlin
29 April - 6 June Retrospective exhibition of watercolours and drawings 1952-1978 Gordon Gunn[23]
1978 Solo Show Cristiana Angelini[24]
15 July - 22 August 1978 Sculptures and Drawings Kinnie Calo[25]
Collage, Pictures and Sculptures Myfanwy Shrapnel[25]
26 August - 26 September 1978 Textiles, Wall Hangings and pottery[26]
30 September - 31 October 1978 Pottery and Weaving[27][28]

WOVEN TEXTILES FROM GREENWICH INSTITUTE

  • Mary Alder
  • Rosemary Apteb
  • Sharon Blay
  • Gillian Boorman
  • Elizabeth Bourne
  • Grace Bowen
  • Millie Caverley
  • Joan Chamberlain
  • Julie Collins
  • Julie Crawford
  • Ronnie Cross
  • Violet Day
  • Edith Farmer
  • Seldon Farmer
  • Judith Filkins
  • Linda Foreman
  • Elaine Gerrity
  • Ann Goldman
  • Hazel Grayson
  • John Grayson
  • Jane Harcourt
  • Marybell Hargward
  • Chris Harvey
  • Pamela Haydon
  • Gillian Hearne
  • Rose Humphries
  • Doris Jenkins
  • Jane Jenkins
  • Richard Jolly
  • Eileen King
  • Maureen Kingston
  • Jo Llewellyn
  • Susan Marsh
  • Valerie Mendes
  • Ethel Moore
  • Peggy Nicholson
  • Win Oldridge
  • Gillian Perrin
  • Gladys Pugh
  • Gillian Price
  • Janice Pudelek
  • Hazel Rank
  • Ann Sofroniou
  • Marylin Ridge
  • Joy Slater
  • Elizabeth Thompson
  • Svbil Spink
  • Catherine de Sousa
  • Joy Turkiewiez
  • Ella Vollans
  • Susan Wieck
  • Winifred Wright

POTTERY FROM ELTHAM INSTITUTE

  • Joyce Adamson
  • Tessa Andrews
  • Brenda Taylor
  • Irene Barker
  • Jackie Barter
  • Frances Brunsell
  • Joan Butcher
  • Alan Dudley
  • Tony Duignan
  • Ann Fay
  • John Foley
  • Maureen Hawes
  • Linda McQuillen
  • Irmgard Marcer
  • Peter Nieto
  • Joan Randall
  • Betty Shadwell
  • Pamela Coe
  • Angela Hunt
  • Sue Trotman

POTTERY FROM GREENWICH INSTITUTE

  • A. ADAMS
  • J. ANNAND
  • P. ANNAND
  • J. Beagles
  • T. Beale
  • G. Budd
  • E Colqhoun
  • S Enderby
  • E Frester
  • M. Gocking
  • L. Gregson
  • L. Hall
  • Anne Hart
  • A. Hartley
  • K. Kaiser
  • A. Morgan
  • B. Rubie
  • M. Schofield
  • P. Stanbridge
  • K. Ward

POTTERY FROM WOOLWICH INSTITUTE

  • Jennie Adams
  • Tony Ashton
  • Jordon Vaviusun
  • Eileen Davies
  • Jan Dias
  • Jean Drostle
  • Neville Edwards
  • Colin Fifield
  • E. Godden
  • Miriam Gordon
  • Grace Gosling
  • Silvia Hogg
  • Jack Holmes
  • Nancy Lawrence
  • Faith Nicolaides
  • Maggie Page
  • Jean Paoras
  • Dorothy Perry
  • Elsie Rigby
  • Sandra Riley
  • Jan Ruddock
  • Beryl Searle
  • Sarla Shankar
  • Eileen Sloane
  • A. Sylvester
  • Elsie Wise
  • Doris Yearsley
4 November - 12 December 1978 Sculpture and Drawings Ken Bright[29]
1979 Memorial Exhibition[30]
15 December 1979 - 15 January 1980 'Watercolours and Etchings Maureen Black[31][32]
Watercolour Drawings and Patterns Rod Harman[33]
19 January - 19 February 1980 Drawings and Prints

Julie Llewellyn[34]

Paintings and Drawings

David Williams[35]

23 February - 25 March 1980 Paintings Drawings and Fabric Collages Richard Box[36]
3 May - 10 June 1980 Figurative Painters[37]
  • Joseph Dixon
  • Ken Ersser
  • Eileen Hogan
  • Robin Hull
  • Julian Minton
  • Terry O'Connor
  • Barrie Payne
  • Simon Pierse
  • Allanah Piesse
  • Jack Piesse
  • Michael Salaman
  • Terence Scales
  • Gordon Scott
  • Ivy Smith
  • Tony Tribe
  • Louise Vines
19 July - 26 August 1980 Paintings Arthur Cotterell[38]
Watercolours Pat Tucker[39]
30 August - 30 September 1980 Pottery Ray Auker[40][41]
Watercolours and Ceramics Dave Edmunds[42]
Paintings, Prints, Drawings and Constructions Inger Lawrance[43]
4 October - 4 November 1980 Paintings and Drawings John Mallcott-Mills[44]
13 December 1980 to 20 January 1981 New pictures for the Art Gallery collection[45]
13 June - 14 July 1981 Solo Show Victor Pasmore[46]
18 July - 25 August 1981 Group ’77 Printmakers[47]
1982 Solo Show Zadok Ben-David[55]
1982 Public Views Stephen Rumney[56]
1982 Artists in Adult Education
1983 Goldsmiths’ show
  • Christopher Andrews
  • Kerry Andrews[69]
  • Philip Bird[70]
  • Graham Coupe[71]
  • Pamela Day[72]
  • Alan Franklin[73]
  • Martin Spanyol[74]
  • Victor Willis[75]
20 August - 20 September 1983 Textiles Maria-Theresa Fernandez[76]
10 November - 4 December 1984 Work by Beckenham Textile Studio[77][78]
  • Sylvia Bates
  • Irene Dobson
  • Valerie Dow
  • Mary Fogg
  • Margaret Gabay
  • Margaret Gartell
  • Geraldin Gillet
  • Mary Howell
  • Barbara Kinsley
  • Renée Leale
  • Moyra McNeill
  • Pamela Pavitt
  • Monica Perry
  • Shelia Rabbetts
  • Valerie Riley
  • Pat Salt
  • Marjorie Self
  • Audrey Shaheen
  • Ann Shearn
  • Barbara Siedlecka
  • Cynthia Singer
  • Dinah Travis
  • Anne Vaughan
  • Julie Walker
  • Pat Wood
6 July - 6 August 1985 Norfolk House SPACE studios at Woodlands[79]
  • Manuel Aja-Herrera
  • Jobe Berrington
  • Niamh Collins
  • Joan Diamantis
  • Linda Dodd
  • Paul Donnelly
  • Ken Janks
  • Philip Hodgetts
  • Sophie Horton
  • Sally Kidall
  • Susan Kinley
  • Laura Knoblock
  • Robert Koenig
  • Peter Maris
  • Gerda Rubinstein
  • Julieta Rubio
  • Rita Smith
  • Steven Veldkamp
  • Jean Wilson
12 October - 5 November 1985 Retrospective Show Rowland Hilder[80][81]
1986 Solo Show Manuel Aja-Herrara[82]
8 August - 2 September 1986 Solo Show Pierre Vivant[83]
11 August - 9 September 1990 Creative Textiles and Ceramics[84]
1991 Solo show Kathryn Ensall[85]
1992 Retrospective (1942-92) Pedro Friedeberg[86]
26 November 1994 - 14 January 1995 Abstract paintings and prints of painters' painter Albert Irvin[87]
December 1995 Retrospective John Christopherson[88]
24 October - 21 November 1998 Wide Time[89][90]
  • Susan Hinks
  • Ian Bottle
  • Gareth Edwards
19 October - 12 November 2000 Enclosures/Disclosures (mixed media work, paintings, sculpture and photography) Artists including Paul Rooney[91]
20 January - 4 February 2001 Sculpture and drawings Carl Plackman[92]
22 March - 15 April 2001 Collection of diverse recent paintings [93]
  • Rosemary Morison
  • Ruth Sumner
  • Val Flack
  • Bruce Williams
2 - 24 June 2001 The London Group[94]
16 February - 15 March 2003 The London Group 90th Anniversary[95]
  • Peter Clossick[96]
  • Anthony John Plowden Eyton[97]
  • Alfred Harris[98]
23 Mar-12 Apr 2003 Greenwich open studios[99]

In 1996, John Christopherson died with instructions for donations to Woodlands Art Gallery.[100]

In October 2003, the local history library was moved to a new site on the Royal Arsenal site in Woolwich[101] – now the Greenwich Heritage Centre,[102] and the gallery subsequently closed.

Steiner School

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The council sought proposals to redevelop Woodlands House, the adjacent Mycenae House and surrounding grounds, with a proposal incorporating premises for a local Steiner School being approved in July 2006.[103]

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