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The Saloon is the principal public room on the first floor, and would have been used for hosting country balls and other large public gatherings. It has been redecorated with appropriate lavishness, with the capitals of the pilasters picked out in gold leaf. Either side of the fireplace are the masterpieces of John Closterman, one of the leading portrait painters in England in the late seventeenth century. On the left are the Children of John Taylor of Bifrons Park, Kent. A rose is passed from hand to hand, to play on the family's motto, 'fame is sweeter than white rose'. On the right are the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury and his brother. Both were moral philosophers and are shown dressed in Closterman's interpretation of the classical costume of their hero, the Greek philosopher Plato. The set of early nineteenth-century French gilt chairs once belonged to the great French collector Cardinal Fesch. Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery on display: |
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David
Garrick Unknown man, formerly known as Sir James
Thornhill Unknown Cardinal, formerly known as Henry
Benedict Maria Clement Stuart, Cardinal York Catherine Macaulay Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury George Frideric Handel |
Philip
Metcalfe Abraham Tucker Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Maurice Ashley-Cooper; Anthony Ashley-Cooper,
3rd Earl of Shaftesbury The Children of John Taylor of Bifrons
Park (Olive Taylor; Brook
Taylor; Margaret Taylor; Mary Taylor; Bridges Taylor; Nathaniel
Taylor; John Taylor; Upton Taylor) |
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