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The Entrance Hall was designed to impress. Rising clear through two storeys to a vaulted ceiling, it is the focal point of Beningbrough, from which all the other principal rooms radiate. The plaster keystones over the doorways, painted to resemble stone feature grotesque masks vomiting a string of husks from their mouths. On the massive chimney-piece sits Christopher Hewetson's bust of Pope Clement XIV, a souvenir of Margaret and Giles Earle's Grand Tour to Italy in the 1770s. The portraits celebrate the rulers of early eighteenth-century Britain: Queen Anne, the last of the Stuarts; George I, the first of the Hanoverians; George II, and his eldest son, Frederick, Prince of Wales, who died before he could become King. Painted by the French-trained, Belgian artist - Philip Mercier, this portrait of the Prince is an altogether different image of royalty, one heralding the great taste and patronage of George III's reign. Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery on display: |
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John
Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough; John Armstrong William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford Queen Anne; William, Duke of Gloucester Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales King George II |
George,
Prince of Denmark Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales King George I |
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