Period Pieces and Portraiture

The collecting of art became a key feature of British country houses in the early 17th century [1]. Connected to this very earliest ac...

Squerryes Court , an early Georgian style country house in Kent, was the home of the de Squerie family in the 13th century, after which it ...

Highclere Castle , a "Jacobethan" country house in Hampshire, has been the home of the Carnarvon family since 1679 [1]. The origi...

Loseley Park is an Elizabethan country house in Surrey, built in the mid-16th century by Sir William More expressly to entertain Queen Eli...

Sudbury Hall  in Derbyshire was inherited by Sir John Vernon in 1513 and remained the Vernon country home until 1967 when it was transferre...

Dorney Court near Windsor has been the Palmer family home for over 450 years and is an excellent example of Tudor architecture [1]. 'D...

This discussion of Wrotham Park is continued from Wrotham Part: Part One . The art collection of Wrotham Park  was built up considerably fr...