Essays

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Thematic

  • Art and the Country House: a research project by the Paul Mellon Centre

    by Martin Postle

  • The Architectural Evolution of Picture and Sculpture Galleries in British Country Houses

    by David Adshead

  • Visiting and Writing on Country House Art Collections in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    by Jocelyn Anderson

  • Women’s Collecting and Display Strategies in the British Country House

    by Amy Boyington

  • Saving Country Houses and their Collections in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

    by Ben Cowell

  • From Power to Enslavement: Recent Perspectives on the Politics of Art Patronage and Display in the Country House

    by Oliver Cox

  • ‘A family home and not … a museum’: Living with the Country House Art Collection

    by Kate Retford

  • Continuity and the Country House: Preservation as a Strategy of Display from 1688 to 1950

    by Jonny Yarker

House essays

  • Trewithen Trewithen

    Trewithen Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Trewithen Trewithen

    Trewithen Catalogue of Paintings: Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Trewithen Trewithen

    Laudari A Laudato Laudatissimum: Trewithen’s Portrait of William Laud

    by Emily Burns

  • Trewithen Trewithen

    The Dining Room at Trewithen: Collection and Display

    by Emily Burns

  • Trewithen Trewithen

    Patrons and Painters: Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and James Northcote at Trewithen

    by Martin Postle

  • Trewithen Trewithen

    Trewithen and its Cornish Context in the Early Eighteenth Century

    by Jonny Yarker

  • Trewithen Trewithen

    Trewithen House and the Hawkins Family: A Building History

    by Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

  • Trewithen Trewithen

    Trewithen House: Architectural Drawings

    by Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

  • Doddington Hall Doddington Hall

    Doddington Hall Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Doddington Hall Doddington Hall

    Catalogue of Paintings: Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Doddington Hall Doddington Hall

    Arthur Pond, Doddington and the Patronage of the Delavals

    by Martin Postle

  • Doddington Hall Doddington Hall

    Doddington and the Delavals: collecting and display in the 1760s

    by Martin Postle

  • Doddington Hall Doddington Hall

    Tapestries at Doddington Hall: Collecting, Conservation and Display

    by Leah Warriner-Wood, Helen Wyld

  • Doddington Hall Doddington Hall

    Doddington Hall: A Building History

    by Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

  • Doddington Hall Doddington Hall

    Doddington Hall and the Delavals: Inventories and Archives

    by Rodolfo Acevedo Rodriguez

  • West Wycombe West Wycombe

    West Wycombe Introduction

    by Clare Hornsby and Adriano Aymonino

  • West Wycombe West Wycombe

    A Select Catalogue of Drawings at West Wycombe Park

    by Clare Hornsby

  • West Wycombe West Wycombe

    Sir Francis Dashwood: Connoisseur, Collector and Traveller

    by Jason M. Kelly

  • West Wycombe West Wycombe

    The House and the Drawings Collection at West Wycombe Park: Dashwood's Educated Taste

    by Clare Hornsby

  • West Wycombe West Wycombe

    Playing with the Canon: West Wycombe Park’s Iconography and the Principle of Citation

    by Adriano Aymonino

  • West Wycombe 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

  • West Wycombe West Wycombe

    Francis Dashwood’s Paintings Collection at West Wycombe: the Tuscan Influence

    by Peter Björn Kerber

  • Castle Howard Castle Howard

    Castle Howard Introduction

    by Christopher Ridgway

  • Castle Howard Castle Howard

    Castle Howard: The Architecture of the Interior

    by Anthony Geraghty

  • Castle Howard Castle Howard

    Antiquities at Castle Howard

    by Christopher Ridgway

  • Castle Howard Castle Howard

    Castle Howard before and after the 5th Earl of Carlisle: The Evidence of the 1759 and 1825 Inventories

    by James Legard

  • Castle Howard Castle Howard

    Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle as a collector of contemporary British Art

    by Martin Postle

  • Castle Howard Castle Howard

    Home and Away: Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle

    by Helen Brett, Martin Myrone and Mark Searle

  • Castle Howard Castle Howard

    The 'Orleans Room' at Castle Howard

    by Christopher Ridgway

  • Petworth House Petworth House

    Petworth Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Petworth House Petworth House

    The Petworth Beauties

    by Tabitha Barber

  • Petworth House Petworth House

    Patterned with Paper Pictures: The Print Room at Petworth House

    by Esther Chadwick

  • Petworth House Petworth House

    Solid, Liberal, Rich and English: The Patriotic Patronage and Curatorship of the Third Earl of Egremont

    by Andrew Loukes

  • Petworth House Petworth House

    Decoding the Country House Archive: Pictures and Papers at Petworth House

    by Emily Burns

  • Petworth House Petworth House

    Light and 'Enlightened Patronage': The Sculpture Galleries at Petworth

    by M.G. Sullivan

  • Petworth House Petworth House

    Picturing Petworth

    by Alec Cobbe

  • Petworth House Petworth House

    Early Days at Petworth

    by Max Egremont

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    Mount Stuart Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    ‘Rough Catalogue of Pictures, Luton Park’: Mount Stuart Introduction

    by Caitlin Blackwell Baines

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    The Bute Collection: Picture Inventories, Catalogues and Valuations – A Catalogue

    by Caitlin Blackwell Baines

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    The Bute Collection and its Houses: A Historical Overview

    by Caitlin Blackwell Baines

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    Sporting Art and Sporting Life: Art and Archives at Mount Stuart

    by Oliver Cox

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    Honours and Insignia: Georgian Portraiture at Mount Stuart

    by Martin Postle and Lisa Ford

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    The Portrait of the Family of Edward Windsor, 3rd Baron Windsor at Mount Stuart

    by Edward Town

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    The Bute Archive and Family at Mount Stuart: Past and Present

    by Lynsey Nairn

  • Mount Stuart Mount Stuart

    Contemporary Visual Arts Programme

    by Morven Gregor and Sophie Crichton Stuart

  • Raynham Hall Raynham Hall

    Raynham Introduction

    by Martin Postle

  • Raynham Hall Raynham Hall

    A Catalogue of Paintings at Raynham Hall, Norfolk

    by Martin Postle

  • Raynham Hall Raynham Hall

    A Concise Architectural History of Raynham Hall, Norfolk

    by Amy Boyington and Karey Draper

  • Raynham Hall Raynham Hall

    An Album of Caricatures by George Townshend at Raynham Hall

    by Oliver Cox

  • Raynham Hall Raynham Hall

    Charles Jervas: A Memorandum of 1733 at Raynham Hall

    by Amy Lim

  • Raynham Hall Raynham Hall

    The Curious Case of the Townshend Heirlooms Sale

    by Martin Postle

  • Raynham Hall Raynham Hall

    The Vere Captains at Raynham Hall

    by Edward Town

  • Raynham Hall Raynham Hall

    'The noblest pyle among us': Raynham in its Local Context

    by Jonny Yarker

  • Mells Manor Mells Manor

    Mells Manor: Introduction

    by Caroline Dakers

  • Mells Manor Mells Manor

    Mells Manor: Introduction to the Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings

    by Martin Postle

  • Mells Manor Mells Manor

    Mells Manor and the Houses of the Horners: An Architectural Overview

    by Alice Blows

  • Mells Manor Mells Manor

    Frances Horner and Mells: Model, Muse, Hostess, Friend, Patron, Collector

    by Caroline Dakers

  • Mells Manor Mells Manor

    Object in Focus: William Pars, Sir John Coxe Hippisley

    by Martin Postle

  • Mells Manor Mells Manor

    Memorials at Mells: An Emerging Story of Remembrance

    by Roger Bowdler

  • Mells Manor Mells Manor

    David Jones at Mells: Conversion, Catholicism and Community

    by Tom Bromwell