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Kenwood House (also known as the Iveagh Bequest) is a stately home in Hampstead, London, on the northern boundary of Hampstead Heath.The present house, built in the late 17th century, was remodelled in the 18th century for William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield by Scottish architect Robert Adam, serving as a residence for the Earls of Mansfield until the 20th century.
His will bequeathed Kenwood House in Hampstead to the nation as a museum for his art collection, known as the "Iveagh Bequest". [19] In 1936 his family installed the "Iveagh Window" in his memory, in the north transept of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. The window was designed and made by Sir Frank Brangwyn. [20] [21]
The painting has been on display at Kenwood House, London since the 1920s, as part of the Iveagh Bequest collection. After being recovered from a theft in 1974, when the painting was held for ransom, The Guitar Player was returned to Kenwood House.
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Kenwood House (Iveagh Bequest) More images. King's Cross Station: Euston Road at York Way, Pentonville N1C 4AL: Railway station: 1850–52: 10 June 1954
Kenwood, Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10206-2. Chapman, H. Perry (1990). Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691002965. Porter, Jeanne C. (1988). "Rembrandt and his Circles: Self Portrait at Kenwood House".
Richard Sackville, by William Larkin; in the collection of the Iveagh Bequest at Kenwood House. [13] Sackville's large debts led to the sale of the house to Hugh Hare . It is generally believed the house's first owner was Sir William Compton , Groom of the Stool to Henry VIII and one of the period's prominent courtiers, who acquired the manor ...
Kenwood House, Hampstead, London. Seat of the Earls of Mansfield (north facade) Murray was born at 56 Portland Place (later renumbered to 37), known as Mansfield House, the London residence of his parents in Marylebone. He was the eldest son of nine children born to the former Frederica Markham and David Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield.