Paintings
Paintings of note include
- The Guitar Player by Johannes Vermeer
- a late Rembrandt self-portrait, 'Portrait of the Artist'
- Pieter van den Broecke, by Frans Hals
- Thomas Gainsborough, 'Portrait of Countess Howe' (see Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe)
- Edwin Henry Landseer, 'Hunting in the Olden Times'
Other painters include
- Joshua Reynolds, 'Mrs. Tollemache as ‘Miranda’'
- Angelica Kauffmann
- John Crome
- George Morland
- Anthony Van Dyck
- William Larkin
- J. M. W. Turner
- Arthur Boyd Houghton
- François Boucher
- Thomas Lawrence, 'Miss Murray'
- George Romney
- Jan Baptist Weenix
- Joseph Wright
Most of the works were acquired by Iveagh in the 1880s-1890s and focus on Old Master portraits, landscapes and 17th century Dutch and Flemish works and British artists. Others were not part of the Iveagh Bequest but were added to the collection after his death because of a connection with Kenwood House.
There is also a collection of shoe buckles, jewellery and portrait miniatures.
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Famous quotes containing the word paintings:
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this—as in other ways—they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)