Essays
Filter by Thematic or House to discover essays about Art and the Country House.
Thematic
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Art and the Country House: a research project by the Paul Mellon Centre
by Martin Postle
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The Architectural Evolution of Picture and Sculpture Galleries in British Country Houses
by David Adshead
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Visiting and Writing on Country House Art Collections in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Jocelyn Anderson
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Women’s Collecting and Display Strategies in the British Country House
by Amy Boyington
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Saving Country Houses and their Collections in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
by Ben Cowell
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From Power to Enslavement: Recent Perspectives on the Politics of Art Patronage and Display in the Country House
by Oliver Cox
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‘A family home and not … a museum’: Living with the Country House Art Collection
by Kate Retford
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Continuity and the Country House: Preservation as a Strategy of Display from 1688 to 1950
by Jonny Yarker
House essays
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Trewithen
Trewithen Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Trewithen
Trewithen Catalogue of Paintings: Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Trewithen
Laudari A Laudato Laudatissimum: Trewithen’s Portrait of William Laud
by Emily Burns
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Trewithen
The Dining Room at Trewithen: Collection and Display
by Emily Burns
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Trewithen
Patrons and Painters: Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and James Northcote at Trewithen
by Martin Postle
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Trewithen
Trewithen and its Cornish Context in the Early Eighteenth Century
by Jonny Yarker
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Trewithen
Trewithen House and the Hawkins Family: A Building History
by Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez
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Trewithen
Trewithen House: Architectural Drawings
by Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez
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Doddington Hall
Doddington Hall Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Doddington Hall
Catalogue of Paintings: Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Doddington Hall
Arthur Pond, Doddington and the Patronage of the Delavals
by Martin Postle
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Doddington Hall
Doddington and the Delavals: collecting and display in the 1760s
by Martin Postle
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Doddington Hall
Tapestries at Doddington Hall: Collecting, Conservation and Display
by Leah Warriner-Wood, Helen Wyld
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Doddington Hall
Doddington Hall: A Building History
by Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez
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Doddington Hall
Doddington Hall and the Delavals: Inventories and Archives
by Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez
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West Wycombe
West Wycombe Introduction
by Clare Hornsby and Adriano Aymonino
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West Wycombe
A Select Catalogue of Drawings at West Wycombe Park
by Clare Hornsby
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West Wycombe
Sir Francis Dashwood: Connoisseur, Collector and Traveller
by Jason M. Kelly
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West Wycombe
The House and the Drawings Collection at West Wycombe Park: Dashwood's Educated Taste
by Clare Hornsby
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West Wycombe
Playing with the Canon: West Wycombe Park’s Iconography and the Principle of Citation
by Adriano Aymonino
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West Wycombe
Object in Focus: Giovanni Pietro Bellori and Pietro Santi Bartoli, Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac veteris Sculpturae vestigia . . ., Rome, Giovanni Giacomo e Domenico de’ Rossi, 1693
by Adriano Aymonino
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West Wycombe
Francis Dashwood’s Paintings Collection at West Wycombe: the Tuscan Influence
by Peter Björn Kerber
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Castle Howard
Castle Howard Introduction
by Christopher Ridgway
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Castle Howard
Castle Howard: The Architecture of the Interior
by Anthony Geraghty
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Castle Howard
Antiquities at Castle Howard
by Christopher Ridgway
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Castle Howard
Castle Howard before and after the 5th Earl of Carlisle: The Evidence of the 1759 and 1825 Inventories
by James Legard
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Castle Howard
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle as a collector of contemporary British Art
by Martin Postle
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Castle Howard
Home and Away: Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle
by Helen Brett, Martin Myrone and Mark Searle
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Castle Howard
The 'Orleans Room' at Castle Howard
by Christopher Ridgway
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Petworth House
Petworth Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Petworth House
The Petworth Beauties
by Tabitha Barber
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Petworth House
Patterned with Paper Pictures: The Print Room at Petworth House
by Esther Chadwick
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Petworth House
Solid, Liberal, Rich and English: The Patriotic Patronage and Curatorship of the Third Earl of Egremont
by Andrew Loukes
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Petworth House
Decoding the Country House Archive: Pictures and Papers at Petworth House
by Emily Burns
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Petworth House
Light and 'Enlightened Patronage': The Sculpture Galleries at Petworth
by M.G. Sullivan
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Petworth House
Picturing Petworth
by Alec Cobbe
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Petworth House
Early Days at Petworth
by Max Egremont
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Mount Stuart
Mount Stuart Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Mount Stuart
‘Rough Catalogue of Pictures, Luton Park’: Mount Stuart Introduction
by Caitlin Blackwell Baines
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Mount Stuart
The Bute Collection: Picture Inventories, Catalogues and Valuations – A Catalogue
by Caitlin Blackwell Baines
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Mount Stuart
The Bute Collection and its Houses: A Historical Overview
by Caitlin Blackwell Baines
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Mount Stuart
Sporting Art and Sporting Life: Art and Archives at Mount Stuart
by Oliver Cox
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Mount Stuart
Honours and Insignia: Georgian Portraiture at Mount Stuart
by Martin Postle and Lisa Ford
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Mount Stuart
The Portrait of the Family of Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor at Mount Stuart
by Edward Town
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Mount Stuart
The Bute Archive and Family at Mount Stuart: Past and Present
by Lynsey Nairn
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Mount Stuart
Contemporary Visual Arts Programme
by Morven Gregor and Sophie Crichton Stuart
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Raynham Hall
Raynham Introduction
by Martin Postle
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Raynham Hall
A Catalogue of Paintings at Raynham Hall, Norfolk
by Martin Postle
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Raynham Hall
A Concise Architectural History of Raynham Hall, Norfolk
by Amy Boyington and Karey Draper
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Raynham Hall
An Album of Caricatures by George Townshend at Raynham Hall
by Oliver Cox
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Raynham Hall
Charles Jervas: A Memorandum of 1733 at Raynham Hall
by Amy Lim
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Raynham Hall
The Curious Case of the Townshend Heirlooms Sale
by Martin Postle
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Raynham Hall
The Vere Captains at Raynham Hall
by Edward Town
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Raynham Hall
'The noblest pyle among us': Raynham in its Local Context
by Jonny Yarker
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Mells Manor
Mells Manor: Introduction
by Caroline Dakers
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Mells Manor
Mells Manor: Introduction to the Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings
by Martin Postle
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Mells Manor
Mells Manor and the Houses of the Horners: An Architectural Overview
by Alice Blows
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Mells Manor
Frances Horner and Mells: Model, Muse, Hostess, Friend, Patron, Collector
by Caroline Dakers
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Mells Manor
Object in Focus: William Pars, Sir John Coxe Hippisley
by Martin Postle
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Mells Manor
Memorials at Mells: An Emerging Story of Remembrance
by Roger Bowdler
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Mells Manor
David Jones at Mells: Conversion, Catholicism and Community
by Tom Bromwell