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Temple Newsam Paintings


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Temple Newsam Paintings
James Lomax

Full colour guide to fifty of the finest paintings from the Leeds Museums and Galleries collections housed at Temple Newsam. Today there are approximately 400 paintings on display at the house, about half of which are indigenous, having been assembled over 300 years by the Ingram family and their successors. Highlights include The Temptation of St Jerome by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Portrait of a Child with a Rattle attributed to Paul van Somer dated 1611, The Adoration of the Shepherds by Matthias Stom (c1600-1656) and 'The Fair Nun unmasked' by Henry Morland (c1730-1797). The collection also contains a group of works by Antonio Marini (1668-1725) commissioned for Temple Newsam by Edward fourth Viscount during his Grand Tour of Europe 1704-7.

Paperback
ISBN: 0 901 981 67 2
£4.99

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