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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Deaver, Michael
Folder Title: Hold (1)
Box: 43
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LYN NOFZIGER
Hold
March 29, 1985
Honorable Michael K. Deaver
Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
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Dear Mike:
Thanks for returning my phone call on
Tuesday. It was much appreciated.
I just want to remind you, because I
know you're busy and you must have a million
things on your mind as you look toward your
departure, that Tom Curtis, our old ex-congress-
man/supporter from Missouri, is very interested
in serving on the board of the new Peace Aca-
demy. In fact, he would like to be chairman.
Tom has one big advantage: he has no axe
to grind. He does not want to use this for a
springboard and he's totally dedicated to the
President. I sure hope you can find some time
to give it some attention. Thanks very much.
Best L regards,
Lyn Nofziger
LN/dm
1605 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. 20009 (202) 332-4030
LEADERS pile Hold
26 March 1985
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The Honorable Michael K. Deaver
Assistant to the President &
Deputy Chief of Staff
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The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mike:
Sometime ago I recommended David Schulte for a position on
one of the President's Committees. I believe it was sent
through Bob Gray's office.
He was, I believe, recommended or considered for the Space
Committee and in December of last year we were told it was
final and it was okay to inform Mr. Schulte that he would be
receiving a letter from The White House. Since that time
there has been a change in the Personnel office. However,
Bob Tuttle informed Bob Gray that yes, Mr. Schulte is under
active consideration and that they were looking for
something appropriate.
I would not write to you except that I have been placed in
an embarrassing position having been told to mention to
David Schulte, whom I originally recommended, that something
would be coming through.
I'm enclosing David's biography. He is an extremely
talented and dedicated individual who has spent most of his
life in the public service.
If there is a way to break the logjam it would be most
appreciated.
Cordially yours,
President & Editor-in-Chief
HENRY 9/Eurcy O. DORMANN
59 EAST 54 STREET NEW YORK 10022 212 758-0740 TELEX: 649333
3/19/85 bcc: Mr. Henry Dormann
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 12, 1985
Dear Bob:
Thank you for your message of congratulations
on my appointment as Deputy Assistant to the
President and Director of Presidential
Personnel.
Thank you also, for your letter recommending
David Schulte.
The information you provided will be
carefully considered as we continue to select
the most capable individuals for service in
the Administration.
Sincerely,
Bob
Robert H. Tuttle
Deputy Assistant to the President
and Director of Presidential Personnel
Mr. Robert Keith Gray
Chairman
Gray and Company
The Power House
Washington, DC 20007-3614
DAVID A. SCHULTE, JR.
Born in 1917 in New York City. Attonded the Horace Mann School, then the
Horace Mann School for Eoys. Graduated Phillips Andover Academy in 1936. Bachelor
of Arts degree in Political Science from Yale University, 1940. Married and has one
child. Residence - 1125 Park Avenue, New York City; office - 501 Fifth Avenue, New
York City.
Active for many years in various Schulte enterprises, including Dunhill of
London, Inc., Park & Tilford, etc. Presently engaged in independent investment re-
search and finance.
Volunteered for duty with the United States Navy. Served for four years with
overseas duty. Present rank - Licutenant Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve (Ret.).
Active in numerous civic and philanthropic endeavors, including Chairman of
the Washington Heights B'nai Brith, United Jewish Appeal Committee, Chairman of the
Americanism Committee of McNally Post, American Legion, Director and Chairman of the
Board Members Institute of the New York City Urban League, member of the New York
City Regional Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith.
In 1952 he was cited by the Washington Heights Lodge B'nai Brith for services
in support of worthy community causes and was named Honorary Chairman of the New York
County Catholic War Veterans Annual Entertainment and Ball. In 1953 presented with
the Veteranism Award by the Department of New York, Catholic War Veterans for philan-
thropic and charitable work for veterans, regardless of race, creed or color. 1956
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Guest of Honor, Joint Defense Appeal, Washington Heights Division. 1959 - Award and
Citation by the Fred E. Meyer D.S.C. Post 403, Veterans of Foreign Wars, for out-
standing work in various civic functions. 1961 - Manhattanville Post, American
Legion Committee Service Award.
Served February 13, 1958 to June 21, 1959 as a member of the New York State
Commission of Correction. This state service entailed inspection of state, city and
county prisons, penitentiaries, jails, police lock-ups, houses of detention, court
pens, to improve their management and insure that their administration was in com-
pliance with the correction law. Also served on the Plans Committee of the Commis-
sion and in this capacity was charged with supervising and approving plans for new
construction and alterations to existing institutions.
During the summers of 1958 and 1959, while in Europe, surveyed French and
Italian penal institutions and correctional administration on behalf of New York
State Commission of Correction.
On April 22, 1960 appointed Member of the New York City Board of Correction
and is presently performing for the City the same functions as he did for the State.
During the summer of 1960 was a participant in the Second United Nations Congress on
The Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held in London.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Correctional Association of New York;
member of the American Correctional Association, the National Jail Association, and
the Federal Grand Jurors Association for the Southern District of New York.
1959 - Director of the New York City Hudson Celebration. 1961 - Co-Chairman
of the New York City Italian Centennial Committee, Chairman of the Hospitality
Committee and Speakers Bureau of the New York-Tokyo Sister City Affiliation of the
President's People to People Program.
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1962- Delegate to the White House Conference on Narcotics and Drug Abuse.
1962- Appointed by President Kennedy to the President's Committee on Equal
Employment Opportunity.
1963- Appointed by Mayor Wagner as Vice Chairman of the Board of Sponsors
of JOIN (Job Orientation in the Neighborhood).
1964- Honored by the New York Regional Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith for, "not only his many accomplishments in
securing new levels of human dignity, but also for the friendship,
warmth and human understanding he brings to all his many endeavors.
1964- Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson a member of the National
Citizens Committee for Community Relations to work for the fair and
full implementation of the new Civil Rights Law of 1964.
1964- Elected President of the Urban League of Greater New York. Served
for the year 1964- 65.
1965- Recipient of the Brotherhood Award February 24, 1965 by the New York
Council of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States.
1965- Appointed by Mayor Wagner a member of the Mayor's Temporary Commission
on Narcotics Addiction. Subsequently selected as a member of its
Executive Task Force, and Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Legislation.
1965- Received a Certificate of Appreciation from President Lyndon B. Johnson
and Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey for his "meaningful contribution
to the welfare of the Nation and its youth through participation in
the 1965 Youth Opportunity Campaign".
1965- Participation in the Third United Nations Congress on the Prevention
of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders.
1965- On October 13, 1965, Mr. Schulte was reappointed by Mayor Wagner
to membership on the New York City Board of Correction with a term
expiring October 13, 1971.
1966- Appointed a member of the Advisory Council to the Joint Legislative.
Committee on Metropolitan and Regional Area Studies. This appointment
made by Hon. Anthony J. Travia, Speaker, The Assembly, State of
New York.
1967- Appointed by the Honorable Percy Sutton, Borough President of
Manhattan, Advisor on Waterfront-Labor Management policy; appointed a
member of Manhattan Planning Board No. 8. Also a member of the 23rd
Precinct Policy Community Council and the 23rd Precinct Policy Youth
Council.
1967- Appointed as a Member of the Joint Legislative Committee on Penal
Institutions.
1967- Appointed by Mayor Lindsay to Membership on the Criminal Justice
Coordinating Committee.
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1967- Honored by the Gibborim Society of the New York City Department of
Correction with a plaque, "In Recognition of Outstanding Service
to the Department.
1967- May 31, Had bestowed upon him by the President of the Italian Republic
the rank of Knight in the Order of Merit of the Republic. This honor
was in recognition of the Italian Government's appreciation for
activities in favor of the Italian community and for warm feelings
always shown towards Italy.
1967- Elected Chairman of the New York Board of the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith to serve for one year. Re-elected in 1968.
1968- January - Became a member of the permanent panel of the Long Jchn Nebel
Discussion Show on NBC radio, appearing thereafter on an average of
four hours per week, discussing topics of civic importance.
1969- Appointed Chairman of the National Urban Affairs Committee of the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
1970- Appointed an advisor to the State of New York Joint Legislative
Committee on Environmental Management and Natural Resources.
1970- Appointed a member of the Advisory Committee to the Borough
President of Manhattan on Narcotics Addiction Control.
1970- Appointed Special Counsel to the United States Senate Sub-Committee
on Juvenile Delinquency.
1970- Awarded a Golden Jubilee Award by the Fred H. Meyer D.S.C. V.F.W.
Post No. 403 "In recognition of his long and dedicated service on
major national and community committees dedicated to human dignity
and a more meaningful life.
1970- Elected to active life membership in the National Sheriffs' Association
in appreciation of personal interest and activity in behalf of the
Association and in the advancement of progressive Law Enforcement.
1971- Appointed by Mayor John V. Lindsay to the New York City Criminal
Justice Coordinating Council for a term ending December 31, 1973.
1971- Recognized by the Urban League of Greater New York for 20 years
service as a member of the Board of Directors. Named an Honorary
Director for life.
1971- Re-appointed as a member of the Environmental Advisory Panel of
the State of New York Joint Legislative Committee on Environmental
Management and Natural Resources.
1971- Reappointed by Senator Birch Bayh as special counsel to the United
States Sub-Committee to investigate Juvenile Delinquency.
1972- Reappointed by Mayor John V. Lindsay as a member of the New York
City Board of Correction for a term expiring October 13, 1973.
1972- Elected to serve a three year term as a Director of the Wolf Trap
Foundation for the Performing Arts of Washington, D. C.
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1972- Guest lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice for
the year 1972.
1972- Elected for a three year term membership on the New York Board
of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc. and
served as a member of the Education Task Force of the Colloguy.
1973- Re-Elected as a member of the American Jewish Committee National
Executive Council.
1973- Re-invited as Guest Lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice.
1974- e-Appointed by Mayor Beame to a term on the Board of Correction
ending October 13, 1975.
1974- Elected to serve as a member of the Anti-Defamation League
National Advisory Council.
1974- Re-invited as Guest Lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice.
1975- Elected by the American Jewish Committee to serve as a member-at-
large on their National Executive Council for a one year term
from May 1975 to May 1976.
1975- Re-appointed to the Wolf Trap Foundation Board of Directors.
1975- Re-appointed by Mayor Beame to a six year term as a member of
the New York City Board of Correction, ending October 13, 1981.
1975- Re-invited as Guest Lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice.
1976- Re-elected as a member-at-large of the National Executive Council of
the American Jewish Committee for the year May 1976 to May 1977.
1976- Re-invited as Guest Lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal
Justice.
1976- Appointed by Senator Birch Bayh as a consultant to the Subcommittee
to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency.
1976- Appointed by Borough President Percy E. Sutton as a Manhattan
Borough chairman to "I Love a Clean New York, Inc.", the City's
new clean-up campaign.
1976- APPPOINTED BY PRESIDENT GERALD R. FORD AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE UNITED STATES TO PARTICIPATE, AS A NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT,
IN THE UNITED NATIONS PROGRAM FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND
THE TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS FOR A TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 1, 1980.
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1980- Joined the nationally syndicated Barry Farber radio talk show as
a permanent panelist, discussing topics of public interest as a
public service. Participates on this midnight to 3:00 A.M. show
several times each week.
1980- Named Honorary Director of Training of the New York City Depart-
ment of Correction "in appreciation of 21 years of devoted
efforts to upgrade the education and training of the uniformed
force".
1981- Reappointed for a six year term to the New York City Board of
Correction by Mayor Koch upon the recommendation of the New York
City Council. Has served on this citizen board continuously
since 1960.
1983- Appointed a member of the national Board of Directors of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews.
1983- Invited to Israel to address senior members of the Israeli
Government and Civil Service on United States - Israel relations,
as perceived by an informed U. S. citizen. Invitation extended by
Professor Sydney Mailick of the New York University Graduate School
of Public Administration, and visiting Professor at Haifa University.
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Dear Mike:
As you requested at Kay Graham's last night, here is
a partial list of the invitees to our gala celebration of
the Treasure Houses show. Of course, we don't know who
will come, although the owners of the very special group
of houses who call themselves the "Magnificient Seven"
(Blenheim, Castle Howard, Woburn, Broadlands, Beaulieu,
Harewood, and Warwick) have already been after us for hotel
reservations. As the President has never been in the East
Building, it would be a wonderfully symbolic event, and
give a sense of having cared when the Royal couple come to
the White House ten days later on November 9. The original
of the enclosed letter to the President came over during
your absence via Jim Rosebush.
In my conversations with Mrs. R. Monday night, I must
say she sounded enthusiastic about the idea.
We also have some events planned for the next day, but
there is never anything like the inaugurating preview.
With all best,
As ever,
bet
J. Carter Brown
The Honorable Michael K. Deaver
Assistant to the President
and Deputy Chief of Staff
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
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EXHBITION FACT SHEET
Title: THE TREASURE HOUSES OF BRITAIN: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF PRIVATE
PATRONAGE AND ART COLLECTING
Patrons: Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales
Dates: November 3, 1985 through March 16, 1986, exactly one week later
than previously announced. (This exhibition will not travel. Loans
from houses open to view are expected to remain in place until the late
summer of 1985 and to be returned before many of the houses open for
their visitors in the spring of 1986.)
Credits: This exhibition is made possible by a generous grant from the
Ford Motor Company.
The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington,
in collaboration with the British Council and is supported by
indemnities from Her Majesty's Treasury and the U.S. Federal Council of
the Arts and Humanities.
Further British assistance was supplied by the National Trust and the
Historic Houses Association.
History of the exhibition: The suggestion that the National Gallery of
Art consider holding a major exhibition devoted to British art was made
by the British Council in 1979. J. Carter Brown, Director of the
National Gallery, responded with the idea of an exhibition on the
British Country House as a "vessel of civilization," bringing together
works of art illustrating the extraordinary achievement of collecting
and patronage throughout Britain over the past five hundred years. As
this concept carried with it the additional, contemporary advantage of
stimulating greater interest in and support of those houses open to
public viewing, it was enthusiastically endorsed by the late Lord Howard
of Henderskelfe, then-Chairman of the Historic Houses Association,
Julian Andrews, Director of the Fine Arts Department of the British
Council, and Lord Gibson, Chairman of the National Trust. The exhibi-
tion was announced in June, 1984, at press conferences held simulta-
neously in London and in Washington at the National Gallery of Art.
Lenders: Over two hundred houses in England, Scotland and Wales are
lending to this exhibition. These houses represent the more than seven
hundred houses throughout Britain which, collectively and individually,
possess extraordinary holdings of works of art comparable to those found
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in the great museums of the world. More than thirty properties
belonging to the National Trust and approximately one hundred and fifty
members of the Historic Houses Association (private owners), as well as
private houses not open to the public, are included. A partial list of
houses is attached.
Content: More than 700 works of art, ranging from the fifteenth into
the twentieth century, have been chosen from these houses to represent
the passion and breadth of art collecting and private patronage which
has taken place during this half-millennium. Included will be paintings
by, among others, Rubens, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Canaletto, Hogarth,
Gainsborough, Turner, Landseer and Sargent; sculpture by Praxiteles,
Bernini, Canova, Flaxman and Henry Moore; furniture by Boulle, Kent and
Chippendale; Meissen, Sevres, Chelsea, Bow and Derby, as well as Orien-
tal porcelain; and splendid examples of books, drawings, tapestry,
jewelry, armor, silver and other decorative arts. A partial list of
works of art is attached.
Installation: The exhibition will be installed in nearly 35,000 square
feet of spaces specially designed by Gervase Jackson-Stops, curator of
the exhibition, and Gaillard F. Ravenal and Mark Leithauser, Chief and
Deputy Chief of the National Gallery's Design and Installation
Department. The exhibition will incorporate the entire Mezzanine and
Upper Levels of the Gallery's East Building. Through an audio-visual
presentation viewable either at the beginning or conclusion of the
exhibition, the viewer will be given an opportunity to learn about the
historical and architectural context from which the works of art in the
exhibition have come. See attached plan of the exhibition.
I. FROM CASTLE TO COUNTRY HOUSE 1485 - 1714
The first four out of a total of seventeen installations highlight-
ing various chronological periods of collecting traces the development
from the fortified medieval castle to the outward-looking "prodigy
houses" of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, and the sumptuous
baroque interiors of the late seventeenth century.
1. Tudor Renaissance
The first of these installations shows the dawn of the Renaissance
in England following the beginning of the Tudor dynasty in 1485.
It will include such remarkable works of art as the Rainbow
Portrait of Elizabeth I from Hatfield House, the "Sea-dog" table
from Hardwick Hall, a magnificent rosewater dish and ewer with
gold mounts from Belvoir Castle, a millefleurs tapestry (Tournai)
from Montacute House, "Maximilian" armor from Warwick Castle, and
miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard, Hans Holbein, and Isaac Oliver
from Bowhill and Powis Castle.
2. The Jacobean Long Gallery
The long gallery was an essential element in the Jacobean country
house, originally used as much for exercise as for hanging family
portraits. The gallery to be constructed in the exhibition -
ninety feet in length - will feature a great Van Dyck of the
Stuart brothers from Broadlands at one end, with other full-length
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period portraits, by Mytens, Gheeraerts, Larkin and others, gilt
bronze busts of Charles I and the Countess of Dysart by Le Sueur,
and early seventeenth-century sgabello chairs from Melbury,
Petworth, and Lacock.
3. Anglo-Dutch Taste and Restoration Opulence
The resurgence of the arts after the austerity of the Civil War,
particularly influenced by the Low Countries, is explored in two
rooms including seascapes by Van de Velde from Stanton Harcourt,
Gosford and Warwick Castle, portraits by Lely and Kneller from Ham
House, Penshurst Place and Burghley House, a famous Hoogstraeten
"perspective" painting from Dyrham Park, Delft tulip vases from
Castle Howard, Dyrham Park and Chatsworth, and Boulle furniture by
Pierre Golle and Gerrit Jensen from Boughton and Drayton.
4. Triumph of the Baroque
The diarist John Evelyn criticized "the intolerable luxury and
expense" shown in the decorative arts at the end of the seven-
teenth century. The splendors of country house furnishings at
this date will be highlighted by the unique set of silver furni-
ture from Knole, exhibited, as it always has been, in front of a
Mortlake tapestry, a panel of limewood carving of fish and game by
Grinling Gibbons from Kirtlington Park, the Countess of Kildare's
silver-gilt toilet set (28 pieces) from Luton Hoo, and a complete
display of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain from Burghley House
arranged in tiers above a corner chimneypiece.
II. THE GRAND TOUR 1714 - 1770
The following six rooms all illustrate aspects of the continental
Grand Tour, which was undertaken by so many of the British landed gentry
and which was to widen their horizons SO dramatically.
5. Lord Burlington and the Palladian Revolution
The new taste for Italian art and architecture in the early
eighteenth century is introduced in a section devoted to Lord
Burlington, William Kent and others who looked for inspiration to
the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. Paintings
representative of this period will include "conversation pieces"
by Hogarth from Houghton Hall and Ickworth, a masterpiece by
Largilliere - his portrait of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton from
Coughton Court - and Canaletto's celebrated views of London from
Goodwood. The furniture by William Kent will include a carved and
gilded settee from the Double Cube Room at Wilton, chairs from
Houghton Hall, Lord Burlington's own "owl" mirror and desk from
Chatsworth and a pair of carved and gilded sconces from Knole.
6. Souvenirs of Italy
Pompeo Batoni's striking portrait from Fyvie Castle of Colonel
William Gordon standing in his kilt in front of the Colosseum in
Rome is typical of the mementos brought back by the Grand
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Tourists. Other Italian views, paintings by Canaletto from Tatton
Park and Woburn Abbey and the Bellotto from Powis Castle, the
Bernini bust of Archbishop Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo from Castle
Howard, and English rococo furniture, often based on Italian
models like John Linnell's spectacular settee from the drawing
room at Kedleston, highlight this highly influential period of
travel in Europe.
7. The Sculpture Rotunda
A painting, entitled Charles Towneley among His Marbles, by Johan
Zoffany from Townley Hall (sic) is the key to a sculpture gallery
which will recall the enthusiasm for collecting Greek and Roman
antiquities that developed during the Grand Tour and as the result
of a passionate interest in classical literature at home. With
such magnificent examples as the Leconfield Aphrodite attributed
to Praxiteles from Petworth House, the Roman Eagle from Gosford
which belonged to Horace Walpole, and Vincenzo Foggini's
monumental Samson and the Philistines from Wentworth Woodhouse,
this rotunda will recall Mr. Towneley's and his contemporaries'
acquisitions of antique and eighteenth-century sculpture, for
settings often specially conceived by architects like Robert Adam
and James Wyatt.
8. Augustan Taste
The collections of Old Master paintings, largely purchased on the
Grand Tour and still surviving in so many British country houses,
are fully represented in a gallery that reflects the richness of
what was known to contemporaries as "Augustan Taste." The pic-
tures here will include works by Van Dyck (The Betrayal of Christ
from Corsham Court), Guercino (Tancred and Erminia from Castle
Howard), Poussin (Moses Trampling on Pharaoh's Crown from Woburn
Abbey), Ribera (Democritus from Wilton House) and Hals (Portrait
of a Man from Chatsworth). These will be accompanied by some of
the great masterpieces of English eighteenth-century furniture in
the neoclassical taste, many designed by Robert Adam: the
Harewood Commode by Thomas Chippendale, and the latter's barometer
from Nostell Priory, one of "Athenian" Stuart's Spencer House
settees from Kenwood, and other pieces from Osterley Park, Newby
Hall and Basildon Park.
9. The Dutch Cabinet
Many Grand Tourists acquired pictures in the Low Countries on
their way home, and Scottish country-house owners often attended
university there, developing a particular taste for the Dutch
masters. Zoffany's portrait of Sir Lawrence Dundas and his
grandson from Aske Hall, seen in an intimate room filled with
small-scale pictures, is the inspiration for the "Dutch Cabinet"
in the exhibition. Among the masterpieces displayed here will be
Rembrandt's Old Lady Reading from Drumlanrig Castle, Pieter de
Hooch's Figures Drinking in a Courtyard from Wrotham Park, and
Gerard ter Borch's The Introduction from Polesden Lacey, as well
as works by Karel Dujardin, Aert van der Neer, Philips Wouwermans,
Jan Steen and Salomon van Ruysdael.
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10. Landscape and the Picturesque
The Grand Tour section of the exhibition is brought to an end by a
gallery devoted entirely to landscape, which shows the intimate
connection between Old Master paintings and the "natural" style of
landscape gardening which reached its apogee in the work of garden
designers like "Capability" Brown. Paintings by Claude, including
his famous Landing of Aeneas from Anglesey Abbey, Poussin's
ravishing Et in Arcadia Ego from Chatsworth and works by Salvator
Rosa, Jacob van Ruysdael and Aelbert Cuyp lead in turn to the
landscapes of English eighteenth-century painters - Gainsborough,
Richard Wilson and Joseph Wright of Derby.
III. THE GENTLEMAN COLLECTOR 1770 - 1830
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw the finest
achievements of the British collector in the international field, as
well as widespread patronage of British artists and craftsmen.
11. The Country House Library
A book room first of all focuses on the intellectual attainments
which were at the root of British country house owners'
connoisseurship. An early fifteenth-century Chaucer manuscript
from Petworth and a Mirror of the World by William Caxton, the
great pioneer of British printing, from Bourne Park, will be shown
here together with superb English and European bindings, and
books, prints and drawings illustrating the typical squire's
interest in music and literature, science, natural history and
architecture.
12. Chinoiserie and Porcelain
A taste for the exotic was stimulated by the import of lacquer
furniture, textiles and ceramics which came to the West through
the English and Dutch East India companies. A selection of
furniture and other decorative arts in the Chinese taste will
complement a display of porcelain. The Oriental section will
include the Burghley and Pencarrow bowls, both decorated with
portraits of the houses from whence they come, and a plate from
Brodick Castle with an amusing Chinese interpretation of Scottish
bagpipers. Among the European porcelain, there will be
outstanding pieces of Meissen from Alnwick Castle, Saltram and
Ickworth and Sevres from Harewood, Boughton House, Goodwood and
Firle Place. A particular rarity is the Sevres service at Stanton
Harcourt made to celebrate George III's recovery from madness, and
decorated with the inscription "Huzza! The King is Well!" British
manufacturers, spurred on by these examples, produced equally fine
wares in the late eighteenth century, and Chelsea, Bow, Worcester
and Wedgwood will also be richly represented, with examples from
Upton House (the Chelsea "Music Lesson" group), Stanway House
(Hans Sloane botanical plates) and Shugborough (a tureen from the
Wedgwood "Frog Service" made for Catherine the Great).
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13. The Sporting Life
The room which follows is inspired by the passion for sport and
other outdoor activities, an essential aspect of British country
house life. The pictures will include Frederick, Prince of
Wales's Shooting Party by John Wootton, lent from the present
Prince of Wales' country house, Highgrove Park; three masterpieces
by Stubbs - the Grosvenor Hunt, lent by the Duke of Westminster,
the Mares and Foals from St. Osyth's Priory and a Water Spaniel
from Brocklesby Park; Ben Marshall's Grey Horse in a Landscape
from Rockingham Castle, and Lord Scarbrough with "Catton" from
Sandbeck, displayed with the four gold cups which were won by this
famous racehorse and which are also shown in the picture.
A display of silver and gold plate in this room will cover all the
great makers of the rococo and neoclassical periods from Paul de
Lamerie (a pierced cake-basket and ladle from Woburn Abbey) and
Frederick Kandler (a tureen from an ambassadorial service at
Ickworth) to Matthew Boulton (an exquisite ormolu perfume-burner
from Kedleston) and Paul Storr (part of a famous silver-gilt
service from Attingham Park).
14. The Waterloo Gallery
This tripartite gallery will recall the apex of British collecting
in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in a
naturally lit installation with screens of columns and pictures
double-hung on high walls in the style of the period. At the
center will be Canova's life-size Three Graces from Woburn Abbey,
considered one of the sculptor's finest achievements. The
pictures will combine works by the greatest British artists with
Old Masters collected at the same time. Among the outstanding
portraits in the first category will be Gainsborough's full-length
Lord Augustus Hervey in naval uniform (Ickworth), Reynolds' 5th
Earl of Carlisle in the robes of the Order of the Thistle (Castle
Howard) and Lady Caroline Scott as a little girl on a winter walk
(Bowhill), Romney's double portrait of Sir Christopher and Lady
Sykes (Sledmere) and Raeburn's dramatic Sir Walter Scott
(Bowhill) Among the subject pictures will be Wright of Derby's
Iron Forge (Broadlands), Constable's The Lock (Sudeley Castle) and
Turner's View of Tabley (Petworth House) A formidable array of
Old Masters will include Rubens' newly-cleaned Marchesa Brigida
Spinola Doria and Titian's Francesco Savorgnan della Torre (both
from Kingston Lacy), Velazquez' Prince Balthazar Carlos on
Horseback (lent by the Duke of Westminster) and Domenichino's
monumental St. John the Evangelist (Glyndebourne).
From the time of the sales held after the Revolution in France,
many British collectors acquired a taste for fine French furniture
and decorative arts of the Regency period. A group of Boulle
pieces by Levasseur, with bronze and gilt-bronze busts, are
particularly appropriate for the Waterloo Gallery as they were
collected by the 1st Duke of Wellington for Stratfield Saye. They
will be accompanied by marquetry furniture from Dalmeny House by
Bernard van Risenburgh, Oeben and Riesener. Thomas Hope's
neo-Egyptian couch and chair from Buscot Park, Thomas Flaxman's
Greek Revival "Shield of Achilles" from Anglesey Abbey and a
collection of hardstone and other objets de vertu collected by
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William Beckford for Fonthill (now at Brodick Castle) - together
with majolica and Limoges, ivories and lusterware - will demon-
strate the eclectic tastes of the "gentleman collector" in the
early nineteenth century. His wife's increasing elegance is also
shown by a jewelry case which will include Russian, Italian and
English tiaras from Blair Castle and Woburn Abbey.
IV. THE ROMANTIC VISION 1830 - 1985
The final section of the exhibition illustrates the sentimental
fascination with the past for the nineteenth century country house
owner.
16. The Highlands and the Victorian Spirit
This section is concerned with the passion for Scotland which owed
much to Queen Victoria's building of Balmoral Castle and the
enormously popular paintings of Landseer - represented by The
Challenge from Alnwick Castle, the Death of a Hart in Glen Tilt
from Blair Castle and the comic Trial by Jury from Chatsworth.
Winterhalter's huge portrait of the Duchess of Sutherland from
Dunrobin Castle will be accompanied by the work of Victorian
painters including Sir David Wilkie, Sir Francis Grant, Clarkson
Stanfield and Edward Lear. Furniture here will include an antler
settee and chairs from Osborne House and torcheres in the form of
highlanders from Balmoral, both lent by Her Majesty the Queen, as
well as a Pugin table from Eastnor Castle, supporting a massive
silver-gilt salver from Woburn Abbey, the only piece of its kind
designed by Landseer.
17. The Pre-Raphaelites
Artists who belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and others
influenced by them, are strongly represented in a small group of
country houses, whose owners shared their high ideals, wishing to
return to the "purer" style prevalent in Italy before the Renais-
sance. Masterpieces of this period will include Burne-Jones' Love
Among the Ruins from Wightwick Manor and his portrait of Alberta,
Lady Windsor, Alma-Tadema's Bacchic Procession from Elton Hall and
Frederick Lord Leighton's Daedalus and Icarus from Buscot Park.
Other exhibits will include bronzes by Alfred Gilbert and Jules
Dalou, from Sandringham and Castle Howard, silver designed by
William Burges for Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch, ceramics by
William de Morgan and Sir Edmund Elton, from Cragside and Clevedon
Court, and a secretaire designed by George Jack and made by Morris
and Co., from Ickworth.
18. Edwardian Elegance and the Continuing Tradition
The Indian summer of the country house in the Edwardian period is
summed up in the work of the American artist John Singer Sargent,
whose many British country house commissions recalled the triumphs
of Van Dyck, Gainsborough and Reynolds. The artist's largest
single painting, an immense group of The Marlborough Family, never
previously removed from the room where it hangs at Blenheim
Palace, will dominate this concluding section of the exhibition.
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The room will also contain his portrait of Sybil, Marchioness of
Cholmondeley, from Houghton Hall, and paintings by Lavery and de
Laszlo, Munnings' The Princess Royal on Horseback from Harewood
House, and Rex Whistler's romantic view of Haddon Hall. A case of
Indian silver, ivory and other works of art collected by Viceroys
and Governors-General, including pieces from Kedleston and
Knebworth, introduces yet another strand in the history of
country-house collecting, which is brought up to the present day
by Annigoni's portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire from
Chatsworth, Graham Sutherland's Lord Iliffe from Basildon Park,
John Piper's view of Harewood and modelli by Jacob Epstein and
Henry Moore.
V.
EPILOGUE: LIFE IN THE BRITISH COUNTRY HOUSE
An epilogue to the exhibition, entitled Life in the English Country
House, will present a history (both "above-" and "below-stairs") in
terms of photography - from the invention of the modern camera by
William Henry Fox Talbot at Lacock Abbey in the 1830s, and the early
achievements of Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron, up to the work
of Cecil Beaton, Lord Snowdon and Lord Lichfield.
Catalogue: The subject of the country house as a collecting institution
will be documented in the exhibition's catalogue. Every work of art
will be illustrated, the majority in color, and the catalogue will be
available in both hard and soft cover. J. Carter Brown, Director of the
National Gallery of Art, will write the introduction, entitled "The
Country House as a Work of Art." Gervase Jackson-Stops, curator of the
exhibition on temporary leave as Architectural Advisor to the English
National Trust and editor of the catalogue, will contribute an essay
entitled "Temples of the Arts," which will reflect the personalities
behind the house, and the relationships between the builder, his archi-
tect and craftsmen. In another essay, Mark Girouard (author of Life in
the English Country House, published in 1978, and The Victorian Country
House, published in 1979), will describe "The Power House," its economic
background, political importance and the machinery supporting it "behind
the green baize door." Other contributors will include John Cornforth
("The Backward Look," heritage and tradition as continuing themes), Sir
Oliver Millar ("Portraiture in the Country House"), Sir Brinsley Ford
("The Country House and the Grand Tour") and Professor Francis Haskell
("The British as Collectors"). A concluding essay by Gervase
Jackson-Stops and Marcus Binney will deal with the present state and
future prospects of British country houses and their collections.
Exhibition Committee of Honour: The Lord Charteris of Amisfield, GCB
GCV OBE QSO, Chairman; The American Ambassador to the Court of Saint
James's; Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of
America; The Hon. Walter Annenberg KBE; Mrs. David K. E. Bruce; The Duke
of Buccleuch and Queensberry KT; Sir John Burgh KCMG CB; The Marquess of
Bute; Sir Hugh Casson PRA KCVO; Sir Robert Cooke; The Duke of
Devonshire; The Lord Gibson; The Duke of Grafton KG; The Earl of March
and Kinrara; Paul Mellon KBE; The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu; The Duke of
Norfolk KG CB MC; The Duke of Northumberland KG GCVO; Commander Michael
Saunders Watson; Sir Roy Strong; The Marquess of Tavistock; and Mrs.
John Hay Whitney.
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Advisory Committee: Sir Geoffrey Agnew, paintings; Michael Archer,
Delft and other ceramics; Dr. Charles Avery, sculpture; Malcolm Baker,
sculpture; Nicholas Barker, books and documents; T. H. Clarke, Meissen
porcelain; Anna Somers Cocks, metalwork;- John Cornforth, interior
decoration/textiles; Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Sevres and French furniture;
Anthony du Boulay, ceramics; Judy Egerton, sporting art; Sir Brinsley
Ford, The Grand Tour; Dr. Susan Foister, sixteenth-century portraits;
John Fuggles, books; Christopher Gilbert, eighteenth-century furniture;
Mark Girouard, architecture/social history; Virginia Glenn, nineteenth-
century decorative arts; Sir Nicholas Goodison, ormolu; Dr. Robert Guy,
antique vases; John Hardy, English furniture and clocks; John Harris,
architecture and garden design; David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese export
porcelain; St. John Gore, National Trust pictures; Arthur Grimwade,
metalwork; Wendy Hefford, tapestries; Simon Jervis, furniture; Professor
Michael Jaffe, paintings; John Kenworthy-Browne, sculpture; Gordon
Laing, Chinese porcelain; David Learmont, National Trust for Scotland;
Santina Levey, textiles; John Mallet, ceramics; Sir Oliver Millar,
seventeenth-century portraits; A.V.B. Norman, armor; Dr. Nicholas
Pickwoad, bindings; Anthony Radcliffe, sculpture; Hugh Roberts, furni-
ture; Francis Russell, paintings (and principal catalogue writer for
pictures); Rosalind Savill, Sevres porcelain; Diana Scarisbrick,
jewelery; Sir Roy Strong, portraits and miniatures; Dr. Carlos Picon,
antique sculpture; Clive Wainwright, nineteenth-century furniture; John
Walker, paintings; Sir Ellis Waterhouse, eighteenth-century portraits;
Sir Francis Watson, French furniture; Catherine Wills, Victorian pic-
tures.
Conservation Panel: Norman Brommelle, Chairman; Herbert Lank and David
Winfield.
Exhibition Steering Committee: Chairman, J. Carter Brown, Director of
the National Gallery of Art; Julian Andrews, Director of the Fine Arts
Department of the British Council; D. Dodge Thompson, Chief of Exhibi-
tion Programs, Gaillard F. Ravenel, Chief of Design and Installation,
and Mark Leithauser, Deputy Chief of Design and Installation at the
National Gallery of Art; and Gervase Jackson-Stops, Architectural
Advisor to the English National Trust and Curator of the Exhibition.
March 22, 1985
END
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION or photographs contact Katherine Warwick,
Assistant to the Director (Information Officer), National Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C. 20565 (202) 842-6353.
TREASURE HOUSES OF BRITAIN:
500 YEARS OF PRIVATE PATRONAGE AND ART COLLECTING
Partial List of Lending Houses
(* Property of English or Scottish National Trust)
On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. November 3, 1985
through March 16, 1986
Abbotsford House
Cragside
Luton Hoo
Alnwick Castle
Dalmeny House
Mapledurham House
*Anglesey Abbey
Deene Park
Milton Manor
Arbury Hall
Dorney Court
*Montacute House
Arniston House
Dumlanrig Castle
Newby Hall
Arundel Castle
*Dunham Massey
Nostell Priory
Athelhampton
Dunrobin Castle
Osborne House
*Attingham Park
*Dyrham Park
Osterley Park
Audley End
Eastnor Castle
Pencarrow
Badminton
Elton Hall
Penshurst Place
Basildon Park
*Erddig
*Petworth House
Beaulieu, Palace House
Euston Hall
*Polesden Lacey
*Belton House
Firle Place
*Powis Castle
*Beningbrough Hall
Floors Castle
Raby Castle
Berkeley Castle
*Fyvie Castle
Rangers House
Blair Castle
Glamis Castle
Rockingham Castle
Blenheim Palace
Glynde Place
*Saltram
*Blickling Hall
Goodwood House
Sandringham
Boughton House
Gorhambury
Scone Palace
Bowhill
Gosford
Sheldon Manor
Bowood
Grimsthorpe Castle
*Shugborough
Bramham Park
*Haddo House
*Sizergh Castle
Breamore House
Hagley Hall
Sledmere
Brighton, Royal Pavilion
Ham House
Squerryes Court
Broadlands
*Hardwick Hall
St. Osyth's Priory
*Brodick Castle
Harewood House
Stanton Harcourt Manor
Brocket Hall
Hatfield House
Stanway House
Burghley House
Hever Castle
Stoneleigh Abbey
Burton Agnes Hall
Holkham Hall
*Stourhead
Burton Constable
Hopetoun House
Stratfield Saye
Buscot Park
Houghton Hall
Syon House
Carlton Towers
Ickworth
*Tatton Park
Castle Ashby
*Kedleston Hall
Temple Newsam House
*Castle Fraser
Kenwood House
*The Vyne
Castle Howard
*Kingston Lacy
Townley Hall
Cawdor Castle
Knebworth House
Ugbrooke Park
*Charlecote Park
*Knightshayes Court
*Uppark
Chatsworth
*Knole
*Upton House
Chicheley Hall
Lacock Abbey
*Wallington
*Clandon Park
Lamport Hall
Warwick Castle
*Claydon House
Lennoxlove
West Wycombe Park
Clevedon Court
Levens Hall
Weston Park
Corsham Court
Longleat
*Wightwick Manor
*Cotehele
Loseley House
Wilton House
*Coughton Court
Lotherton Hall
*Wimpole Hall
Woburn Abbey
PARTIAL LIST OF OBJECTS BY MEDIUM
TREASURE HOUSES OF BRITAIN
PAINTINGS
An Old Woman Reading, by Rembrandt van Rijn, Drumlanrig Castle,
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, (The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, KT).
Charles Towneley Among his Marbles, by Johan Zoffany, 1781-83, Townley
Hall Art Gallery and Museums, Lancashire, (Burnley Borough Council).
Democritus, Jose Ribera, Wilton House, Wiltshire, (The Earl of
Pembroke).
Et in Arcadia Ego, by Nicholas Poussin, c. 1627, Chatsworth House,
Derbyshire, (The Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement)
Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803), by Louise
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, 1790, Ickworth, Suffolk, (The National Trust,
Bristol Collection).
Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle In the Robes of the Order of the
Thistle, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1769, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, (From
The Castle Howard Collection).
Lady with a Lute, by Palma Vecchio, early 1520's, Alnwick Castle,
Northumberland, (The Duke of Northumberland).
The Landing of Aeneas, by Claude Lorrain, 1675, Anglesey Abbey,
Camridgeshire, (National Trust, Fairhaven Collection).
Lord John Stuart with His Brother Lord Bernard Stuart, by Sir Anthony
Van Dyck, C. 1639, Broadlands, Hampshire, (The Lord Romsey)
The Ten Table, St. Fagan's Castle, by Sir John Lavery, 1905, Private
Collection.
Lord Scarbrough with "Catton", by Ben Marshall, 1816, Sandbeck Park,
Yorkshire, (Trustees of The Earl of Scarbrough's 1979 Settlement).
Love among the Ruins, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1894, Wightwick Manor,
Staffordshire, (The National Trust, Bearsted Collection).
Mares and Foals Without a Background, by George Stubbs, St. Osyth's
Priory, Essex, (The Lady Juliet de Chair and the Trustees of Olive,
Countess Fitzwilliam's Chattels Settlement).
Mr. and Mrs. Browne of Tunstall, by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1754-1755,
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, (The Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley).
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A Fete at Petworth, by W.F. Witherington, 1835, Petworth House, Sussex,
(The National Trust, Egremont Collection).
The 9th Duke of Marborough and His Family, by John Singer Sargent, 1905,
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, (The Duke of Marlborough).
The Grosvenor Hunt, by George Stubbs, (The Duke of Westminster).
The Holland House Group, by William Hogarth, 1737, Ickworth, Suffolk,
(The National Trust, Bristol Collection).
The Lock, by John Constable, 1824, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, (The
Lady Ashcombe and the Morrison Trustees).
The 'Rainbow Portrait' of Queen Elizabeth I, attributed to Marcus
Gheeraerts, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, (The Marquess of Salisbury).
View of Harewood, by John Piper, gouache, Harewood House, Yorkshire,
(The Earl and Countess of Harewood).
SCULPTURE
Fortuna, Roman, 1st century A.D., Holkham Hall, Norfolk, (The Viscount
Coke).
The Leconfield Aphrodite, attributed to Praxiteles, 4th century B.C.,
Petworth House, Sussex, (The National Trust, Egremont Collection).
The Lumley Horseman, 16th century, Sandbeck Park, Yorkshire, (The Earl
of Scarbrough).
The Three Graces, by Antonio Canova, 1817, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire,
(The Marquess of Tavistock and the Trustees of the Bedford Estates).
METALWORK
"Maximilian" Armour, C. 1520, Warwick Castle, Warwickshire (Madame
Tussaud's Ltd.).
Silver cigar humidor in the form of Easton Neston, 1977, Easton Neston,
Northamptonshire, (The Lord Hesketh).
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Silver-gilt candelabrum, by Paul Storr, 1810, Attingham Park,
Shropshire, (The National Trust, Berwick Collection).
Silver-gilt tea service, by Digby Scott, Benjamin Smith, and others,
1805-1809, Attingham Park, Shropshire, (The National Trust, Berwick
Collection).
Silver three-light candelabrum, by Simon le Sage, 1758, Ickworth,
Suffolk, (The National Trust, Bristol Collection).
The Doncaster Cup, Emes and Barnard, 1828, Lotherton Hall, Yorkshire,
(Leeds City Art Gallery).
The Richmond Cup, Smith and Sharp, 1776, Bourne Park, Kent, (The Lady
Juliet de Chair and the Trustees of Olive, Countess Fitzwilliam's
Chattels Settlement).
CERAMICS
Black figure hydria with Herakles scene, Follower of Exekias, C. 525
B.C., Charlecote Park, Warwickshire, (The National Trust, Fairfax-Lucy
Collection)
Delft Orange-tree Vase with the Arms of William and Mary, late 17th
century, Erdigg, Denbighshire, Wales, (The National Trust, Yorke
Collection).
Pair of Sevres Vases painted with Oriental Scenes, by Charles Nicholas
Dodin, 1763, Firle Place, Sussex, (The Trustees of the Firle Estate
Settlement).
Pair of figures of pug-dogs, Chinese, Ch'ien Lung, Saltram, Devon, (The
National Trust, Morely Collection).
Snuff box with miniature of Caroline Lennox, Meissen, 1748, Goodwood
House, Sussex, (The Earl of March and Kinrara).
The Music Lesson, bocage group, Chelsea - gold anchor, C. 1765, Upton
House, Oxfordshire, (The National Trust, Bearsted Collection, ).
Vase "pot-pourri a dauphins", Sevres, Boughton House, Northamptonshire,
(The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, KT).
DECORATIVE ARTS
Mahogany armchair, carved and parcel-gilt, designed by William Kent, C.
1730, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, (The Marquess of Cholmondeley).
Millefleurs Tapestry, Tournai, C. 1481, Montacute House, Somerset, (The
National Trust).
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Silver Table, Mirror and Candlestands, 1676-80, Knole, Kent, (The
National Trust, Sackville Collection).
The Harewood Commode, by Thomas Chippendale, 1773, Harewood House,
Yorkshire, (The Earl and Countess of Harewood).
The Princess Bagration's pink spinel and diamond tiara and hair comb,
early 19th century, (The Duke of Westminster).
The Shield of Achilles, designed by John Flaxman and made by Rundell,
Bridge and Rundell, 1822-23, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, (The
National Trust, Fairhaven Collection).
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5 LORD BURLINGTON AND THE PALLADIAN REVOLUTION
6 SOUVENIRS OF ITALY
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12 CHINOISERIE AND PORCELAIN
13 THE SPORTING LIFE
14 THE WATERLOO GALLERY
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15 THE HIGHLANDS AND THE VICTORIAN SPIRIT
16 THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
17 EDWARDIAN ELEGANCE AND THE CONTINUING TRADITION
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15 THE HIGHLANDS AND THE VICTORIAN SPIRIT
16 THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
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