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Obituary
Alastair David Laing (1944–2024)
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1094–6
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Author:
Rowell, Christopher (Rowell, Christopher)
Subjects
artists:
Boucher, François
museums and institutions:
National Trust
subjects:
Laing, Alastair, London, Great Britain / Art historians / Portraiture / Country houses / Collections / Displays / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. La vie champêtre, by François Boucher. c.1728. Oil on canvas, 61 by 48 cm. (Belton House, Lincolnshire).
Attributed works:
2. Alastair Laing in in the Long Gallery at Osterley Park, where he was responsible for the hang, July 2001. (© Lucy Dickens; National Portrait Gallery, London).
Obituary
Jacob Rothschild (1936–2024)
05/2024 | 1454 | 166
Pages: 538–540
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Author:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Aylesbury, Great Britain / Spencer House, London, Great Britain / National Gallery, London, Great Britain / National Heritage Memorial Fund / Heritage Lottery Fund
patrons:
Rothschild, Jacob
subjects:
Patronage / Commissions / Country houses / Collecting / Collectors / French art / French decorative art / Restoration (process)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (‘Man in a Chair’), by Lucian Freud. 1989. Oil on canvas, 114.3 by 79.7 cm. (Private collection, on loan to the National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
2. Louis XVI, by Antoine-François Callet, in a frame attributed to François-Charles Buteux. 1781–82. Oil on canvas in gilded oak frame, 280 by 180 cm. (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
3. Boy building a house of cards, by Jean-Siméon Chardin. 1735. Oil on canvas, 81 by 101 cm. (Private collection, on loan to Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
How the Country House Became English
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1369–1370
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Reviewer:
Hodgkinson, Rebekah (Hodgkinson, Rebekah)
Subjects
subjects:
Country houses / British architecture / Politics / Social history
Reviewed Items
subjects:
How the Country House Became English By Stephanie Barczewski. 392 pp. incl. 74 col. + b. & w. ills. (Reaktion, London, 2023), £25. ISBN 978–1–78914–760–5. | :
Book Review
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life
09/2023 | 1446 | 165
Pages: 1038-40
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Reviewer:
Rowell, Christopher (Rowell, Christopher)
Subjects
subjects:
Irish architecture / Country houses / Domestic (house related concept) / Interiors / Inventories / Social history / Georgian / Buildings
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Tessa Murdoch. 436 pp. incl. 18 col. + 41 b. & w. ills. (John Adamson, Cambridge, 2022), £75. ISBN 978–1–898565–17–8. | :
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House and Home in Georgian Ireland: Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life Edited by Conor Lucey. 216 pp. incl. 95 col. ills. (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2022), £45. ISBN 978–1–80151–026–4. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
5. Sir Neil O’Neill, by John Michael Wright. 1680. Oil on canvas, 232.7 by 163.2 cm. (Tate).
Book Review
The Art of Tapestry
04/2023 | 1441 | 165
Pages: 472-475
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Reviewer:
Campbell, Thomas P. (Campbell, Thomas P.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
National Trust
places:
England
subjects:
Tapestry (process) / Collections / Country houses / Palaces / Castles
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Art of Tapestry By Helen Wyld. 256 pp. incl. numerous col. ills. (Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 2022), £45. ISBN 978–1–78130–112–8. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Tapestry Room at Osterley House, Middlesex, hung with a set of Gobelins ‘Tenture de Boucher’ tapestries, installed in the 1770s. (National Trust Images).
Attributed works:
2. The High Great Chamber at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, hung with the Story of Ulysses tapestries, woven in Brussels in the 1560s. (National Trust Images).
Obituary
Mark Girouard (1931–2022)
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1171-1172
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Author:
Hall, Michael (Hall, Michael)
Subjects
art literature:
Girouard, Mark
subjects:
Architectural historians / British architecture / Country houses / Urban history / Social history
subjects:
Country Life (publishers), London, Great Britain
Illustrations
Attributed works:
Mark Girouard, photographed in the early 1960s. (Photograph Country Life / Future Publishing Ltd).
Article
A newly identified portrait by Sir Nathaniel Bacon
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 641-649
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Author:
Hearn, Karen (Hearn, Karen)
Subjects
artists:
Bacon, Nathaniel / Kauffmann, Angelica / Rubens, Peter Paul
buildings:
Brome Hall, Eye, Suffolk, Great Britain / Government House, Sydney, Australia / Santry Court, Dublin, Ireland
dates:
1600-1649
subjects:
British painting / Portraits / Pregnancy / Provenance / Attributions / Country houses / Gardens / Lost works / Attributions, former
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Self-portrait, by Nathaniel Bacon. c.1620. Oil on canvas, 206.4 by 153.7 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
10. Self-portrait with his wife, Isabella Brant, by Peter Paul Rubens. c.1609–10. Oil on canvas, 178 by 136.5 cm. (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.2, showing metal braid on Bacon’s jacket.
Attributed works:
3. The artist’s wife, Jane Bacon, Lady Cornwallis, née Meautys, here attributed to Nathaniel Bacon. c.1614–17. Oil on canvas, 203.2 by 149.8 cm. (Government House, Sydney; photograph Ondrej Koucky, Rapturous Media).
Attributed works:
4. Cookmaid with still life of vegetables and fruit, by Nathaniel Bacon. c.1620–25. Oil on canvas, 151 by 246.7 cm. (Tate).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Johannes Kip. 1715. Engraving, 35.5 by 49 cm. (From J. Kip: Nouveau théâtre de la Grande Bretagne, London 1715, I, pl.44).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.3, showing Brome Hall.
Attributed works:
7. Monument to Jane, Lady Bacon, by Thomas Stanton. Commissioned 1657. Marble. (St Mary’s church, Culford, Suffolk).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.3, showing figures in the garden.
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.3, showing the sitter’s hands and pregnant body.
Article
A second Paston prospective rediscovered
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 569-575
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Author:
Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
Author:
Lloyd, Stephen (Lloyd, Stephen)
Subjects
artists:
Stone, Nicholas, the Elder / Portman, George / Pearce, Edward, the Elder / Pearce, Edward, the Elder / Delen, Dirck van / Houckgeest, Gerard
buildings:
Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, Great Britain
dates:
1640-1649
patrons:
Paston, William, 1st Baronet
subjects:
Country houses / Architectural paintings / Anonymous artists / Attributions / Frames / Commissions / Venice
subjects:
Heraldry / Coats of arms
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.2, showing the statue with a heraldic crest.
Attributed works:
2. A Paston prospective: a palace with a lake and gondolas. c.1640. Oil on canvas, 119.4 by 164 cm. (National Trust, Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
3. Venetian carnival scene on a terrace, by Pieter de Jode the Elder after Ludovico Pozzoserrato (Lodewijk Toeput). c.1595–98. Line engraving, 37 by 50.8 cm. (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Fig.3, showing gondolas.
Attributed works:
5. Frontispiece to T. Coryat: Coryats Crudities, London 1611, engraved by William Hole. Engraving, 21.2 by 15.5 cm.
Attributed works:
6. Female novices going to visit their relations by gondola, by Giacomo Franco. c.1610. Engraving, 24.4 by 18.9 cm. (From G. Franco: Habiti d’Huomeni et Donne venetiane, Venice 1610; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
7. The doge attending vespers and mass at S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, on Christmas day, by Giacomo Franco. c.1610. Engraving, 24.4 by 18.9 cm. (From G. Franco: Habiti d’Huomeni et Donne venetiane, Venice 1610; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
8. Detail of Fig.9, showing the coat of arms.
Attributed works:
9. The Most Honourable Sir William Paston, Baronet, by William Faithorne the Elder. 1659. Engraving, 27 by 20.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
1. A Paston prospective: a country house with gardens. c.1640. Oil on canvas, 117 by 164 cm. (Private collection).
Letter
The National Trust
11/2020 | 1412 | 162
Pages: 920
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
National Trust
subjects:
Curators / Country houses / scholars
Editorial
Cultural revolution at the National Trust
09/2020 | 1410 | 162
Pages: 727
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Subjects
museums and institutions:
National Trust
subjects:
Curators / scholars / Country houses / Conservation
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