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A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Wilton House (Hardcover)
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A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Wilton House (Hardcover)
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The collection of pictures at Wilton has been celebrated since the
seventeenth century; and its historic arrangement is uniquely well
documented in a series of catalogues of which the first, issued in
1731, was the earliest such publication about any private
collection in England. Of successive owners of the house, three
made significant contributions: William, 4th Earl of Pembroke, who
commissioned van Dyck's monumental portrait of his family that
dominates the Double Cube Room he had created; his grandson,
Thomas, 8th Earl of Pembroke who assembled what was in some
respects a pioneering collection of old master pictures for the
house; and his grandson, Henry, 10th Earl of Pembroke, patron of
Reynolds and Wilson, among others. Such masterpieces as Lucas van
Leyden's Card Players, Cesare da Sesto's Leda - long attributed to
Leonardo - and Ribera's Democritus are matched by remarkable
portrait drawings by Raphael and Holbein. These are complemented by
a substantial deposit of family portraits and other pictures that
attest to the tastes and interests of successive generations of the
Herbert family.
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