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