Hugh Belsey MBE wins the 2020 Berger Prize

In 2020, covid forced the prize to be awarded without a prizegiving ceremony. Instead, at a virtual event on 1 December, the Berger Prize was awarded to:

Hugh Belsey

Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters

Yale University Press

Hugh Belsey sat down with Professor Robin Simon to discuss his life's work, the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. There is an interlude part-way through (starting at 18m 10s), where Mark Bills, Director of Gainsborough's House, describes the building developments then happening at the museum.