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London exhibition recreates the bohemian cottage where Lucian Freud learned to paint
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In 1937, two men bought a cottage and set up what would become a renowned art school, and nearly 90 years later, a themed recreation has been built in London.
And at a new Garden Museum exhibition, you can step through the cottage’s wooden door… and into the kitchen.
Elsewhere, Denis Wirth-Miller’s photographs offer intimate glimpses of the students and teachers relaxing together in the still-developing Benton End garden.
What emerges is less the conventional history of an art school than a portrait of Benton End as a network of people and ideas.
The exhibition, Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint, is at the Garden Museum until 20th September 2026.