Watercolour Rooms

In John Jewell’s 1819 ‘Tourist’s Companion’ to Harewood House, these two rooms are listed as ‘The Couch or Bath Room’ and ‘The Blue Room’. Both rooms were refurbished in the late 1980s as areas where it would be possible to display the Harewood collection of watercolours – a collection of national importance, which includes paintings by Turner, Girtin and Varley. Due to the fragile nature of watercolours  the pictures are not on permanent display.

The Watercolour Rooms now house temporary exhibitions of painting, sculpture, drawing and photography – a platform for Harewood’s commitment to interpretation of the permanent collections and to contemporary art.

Visit the What's On pages for more information on current and upcoming art exhibitions.