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Houghton Revisited

Houghton Revisited

The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage

by John HarrisThierry Morel Larissa Dukelskaya and others
Hardback
Publication Date: 28/05/2013

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n 1779 the family of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime minister, sold his remarkable art collection to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. More than two centuries later, these masterpieces, rarely seen outside Russia since that time, are returning to Houghton Hall, the great house built by Walpole. This handsome book illustrates these superlative works hanging once again in William Kent's magnificent interiors. Thierry Morel uncovers the wonders of Walpole's collection, which includes paintings by Van Dyck, Poussin, Rubens and Rembrandt, and traces its journey to the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, to which most of the works now belong. Other essays explore Walpole's artistic tastes and collecting habits, and his beautiful house, one of the finest Palladian buildings in England.
ISBN:
9781907533501
9781907533501
Category:
Painting & paintings
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
28-05-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Royal Academy of Arts
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
292x235x0mm
Weight:
1.64kg
John Harris

John Harris is the Principal Zoologist of Wildlife Experiences, an ecological consultancy and wildlife tourism business. He worked as a teacher for nearly 20 years before branching out into a career that encompassed his lifelong passion for nature and education. He works as an ecological consultant on projects across Australia as well as leading tours to see Australia's unique flora and fauna.

Andrew Moore

Moore's photographs have been acquired by numerous museums in the United States and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress, the Israel Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. This new book will be his seventh monograph, alongside Inside Havana (2002, Chronicle), Russia (2005, Chronicle), Detroit Disassembled (2010, Damiani), and Cuba (2012, Damiani) and Dirt Meridian (2015).

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