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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]
Kenwood House, London The Guitar Player is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), dated c. 1672 . This work of art is one of Vermeer's final artistic activities, providing insight into the techniques he mastered and approaches to painting he favored.
Bryant, J. Kenwood: The Iveagh Bequest (English Heritage publication 2004) Guinness, P. Arthur's Round (Peter Owen, London 2008) Joyce, J. The Guinnesses (Poolbeg Press, Dublin 2009) Bourke, Edward J. The Guinness Story: The Family, the Business and the Black Stuff (O'Brien Press, 2009). ISBN 978-1-84717-145-0
Kenwood House, Hampstead, London. In 1766, one of two unmarried sisters of Viscount Stormont and aunt to Lady Elizabeth, Lady Anne Murray (1730–1817) would come to live at Kenwood at the same time as Elizabeth and Dido, they all were joined at a later date by the second sister Lady Marjory (1730–1799) before Lady Mansfield's death. [9]
Before the paparazzi and TMZ, we had to rely on celebrity postcards to get a glimpse into the private estates (and Christmas trees) of Hollywood’s finest.These vintage postcards from the 1920s ...
A farm worker from Mercer County, Ohio, located on the state's western border along Indiana, came into contact with deceased poultry that was infected with the virus, the Ohio Department of Health ...
Rembrandt van Ryn, Self Portrait in Old Age, purchased from Agnew's in 1888 by Sir E. C. Guinness, present owner: The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House. Claude Monet, Terrace at Sainte-Adresse , purchased from Agnew's by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1967.