Art Collections
It is said that the house housed one of the best private art collections in the world with paintings by Gainsborough, Velázquez and other old masters. Some of these were sold between the wars but most remain in the other Grosvenor homes, mainly their country seat - Eaton Hall in Cheshire.
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