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191: 110: 39: 178:, to add a studio to the house, and in 1910 Keppie designed the gallery. A successful artist, Hornel continued to travel in the Far East, and also collected rare books. After Hornel's death in 1933, his sister continued to live at Broughton House until her death in 1950, after which the property was managed by The Broughton House Trust before being transferred to the National Trust for Scotland. In his will, Hornel wished that his house should "be preserved as a public art gallery for the benefit of the people of 443: 174:. In the 1890s he travelled to Japan, spending over a year making a series of around 30 paintings that were exhibited in Glasgow on his return in 1895. The proceeds from the sale of these paintings allowed him to spend £650 on buying Broughton House in 1901. Hornel lived at Broughton House with his sister Elizabeth ('Tizzy'), for the rest of his life. He commissioned his friend, the Glasgow architect 198:
The National Trust for Scotland maintain the house and its contents as a museum of Hornel's life and work. Within the house is a range of period furniture as well as artworks by Hornel and his contemporaries. The house also contains a large reference library of some 15,000 books collected by Hornel,
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of Broughton, in Wigtownshire, Provost of Kirkcudbright and MP, who had them remodelled as one. The Murray family sold it in 1756, after which it had various owners, including the
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between 1901 and his death in 1933. During this time Hornel remodelled the house and created the Japanese-influenced gardens. Since 1997 it has been in the care of the
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hedging. A number of 17th-century and 18th-century sundials are sited in the garden, as well as late 17th-century carved stone gate posts.
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The main building was constructed in 1734 as two houses, at no.10 and no.12 High Street. In 1740 they were both purchased by
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This article is about the house in Scotland. For the house in Australia, see
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including a 2,500-volume collection of works by or about
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Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland
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Japan and Britain After 1859: Creating Cultural Bridges
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Category A listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway
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Broughton House, Parramatta
Broughton House, Raleigh
Jolly-Broughton House

54°50′13″N 4°3′16″W / 54.83694°N 4.05444°W / 54.83694; -4.05444

town house
Kirkcudbright
impressionist
E. A. Hornel
National Trust for Scotland
listed building
Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland
Alexander Murray
5th Earl of Selkirk
Edward Atkinson Hornel
Glasgow Boys
John Keppie
the Stewartry

Robert Burns
Elgin Marbles
Parthenon
River Dee
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