Later Life
Peel's father's fine collection of seventy-seven pictures and eighteen drawings, including the well-known 'Chapeau de Poil', by Rubens, he sold to the National Gallery, in March 1871, for 75,000l. (Parliamentary Papers, 1872, No. 35). According to John Bateman's "The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland" (1883), he owned 9,923 acres (40.16 km2) or land (in Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Lancashire yielding an annual rent of £24532. However, in later life his private circumstances were embarrassed, chiefly owing to his reckless extravagance, and he ceased to reside at Drayton Manor, Warwickshire.
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