Longford Castle
the treasures and the collectors
$101.71
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2017
Summary
Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned today by their descendants. Until now, it has been relatively less known amongst the pantheon of English country houses. It explores the acquisition and commission of works of art from Holbein’s Erasmus and The Ambassadors, to exquisite landscapes by Claude and Poussin, and family portraits by Thomas Gainsboroug…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781910787687 |
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| ISBN-10: | 191078768X |
| Author: | Amelia Smith, William Earl of Radnor |
| Publisher: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.56kg |
| Dimensions: | 280mm x 250mm |
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About The Author
Amelia Smith
Amelia Smith grew up in Surrey and attended university in London. She recently completed a PhD on the Longford Castle art collections at Birkbeck College in collaboration with the National Gallery. Amelia Smith graduated in 2012 with a First Class degree in History of Art from University College London, where she was awarded the Gombrich Prize and Zilkha Prize. She went on to gain an MA in Curating the Art Museum at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2013, and undertook a curatorial internship at the National Portrait Gallery, researching for the exhibition ‘The Great War in Portraits’ (2014).
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