In 1925 Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh bought Kenwood, the magnificent 18th-century mansion of the 6th Earl of Mansfield on Hampstead Heath. The empty house was just what Iveagh needed to provide a gallery for the best of the art collection he had formed between 1887 and 1891 for his palatial home in Mayfair. Through the Iveagh Bequest Act of 1929 he left his collection to the nation, where it remains on display at Kenwood. This catalog reproduces in glorious full color Lord Iveagh’s bequest of paintings, discusses each work, and in addition discusses the wider collection on display at Kenwood, the spectacular white villa of Hampstead Heath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Glorious full-color catalog of Lord Iveagh’s bequest of paintings on display at Kenwood, on Hampstead Heath, as well as sections on the wider collection in the house.
Foreword
\nAcknowledgements
\nI: Overview of the Collection
\nKenwood: London’s ‘finest country residence’
\nLord Iveagh as a Collector: ‘This Dream of a Golden Age’
\nIntroduction to the Collection
\nArrangement of the Catalogue
\nII: Seventieeth-Century Artists
\nII: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Continental Artists
\nIII: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Artists
\nIV: The Wider Collection
\nV: Family Portraits
\nAnnex I: Purchases from Agnew’s by Sir E. C. Guinness
\nAnnex II: Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest (1929)
\nAnnex III: Acquisitions by Kenwood (1929–2025)
\nBibliography
\nIndex
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