AN EXHIBITION of rarely-seen views of the Royal Pavilion estate has been extended.

Visitors will now have until December 10 to take in the display which goes back in time to the 1760s and has digital reconstructions of how Brighton’s palace might have looked. The Brighton Museum and Art Gallery exhibition includes illustrations from the earliest printed books about the estate, unrealised designs, early municipal maps and 20th century plans and images.

Meanwhile, the museum continues to host an exhibition about artist John Constable’s relationship with Brighton. He stayed in the resort with his family between 1824 and 1828, walking the coastline and the South Downs. The exhibition closes on October 8.

Both are free with museum admission.

The Royal Pavilion also explores author Jane Austen’s relationship with Brighton to mark the bicentenary of her death. The exhibition, which runs until January 8, looks at how she painted a picture of the seaside resort in her plots and reviewed her opinion of the town in the light of a long-held misunderstanding arising from a hand-written 1799 letter.

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