Houghton Revisited: The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage (Hardback)

Thierry Morel (Author)

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Houghton Revisited: The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage

Houghton Revisited: The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage

£40.00 £15.00

Houghton Revisited: The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage

£40.00 £15.00
In 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.
  • Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London
  • ISBN: 9781907533501
  • Pages: 272
  • Weight: 1.64
Thierry Morel is a curator and art historian. He curated the exhibition "Houghton Revisited" and edited and contributed to the catalogue Houghton Revisited: The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great's Hermitage. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Hermitage Museum Foundation (USA) and a trustee of the Sir John Soane's Museum in London.

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