Sentences with phrase «kenwood house»

The National's own musical pair, of ladies standing and sitting at the virginal, are joined in trio by The Guitar Player from Kenwood House; alongside these will be 17th - century sheet music and a selection of instruments, all there to encourage us to meditate on the meaning of music to the Delftish master in the Dutch Golden Age.

While under the ownership of the 2nd Earl and Countess of Mansfield the estate was extended again with a new dairy to supply Kenwood House with milk and cheese.

The Art Fund has helped buy 26 works for display at Kenwood House, including Joseph Wright of Derby's Dressing the Kitten and Portrait of John Joseph Merlin by Thomas Gainsborough.

2013 Education, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland 2013 Block Party: Contemporary Craft Inspired by the Art of the Tailor, AUB, Bournemouth, England 2013 Living Archive, Paco Das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brasil 2013 Bienniale Cuvee, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 2013 Out of Fashion, gl Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark; travelling to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark 2013 Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting: 15th Anniversary Collection, MOCA, North Miami, USA 2013 Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations, Contemporary Art Centre, Louisiana, USA 2013 Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA 2013 Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA 2013 Le Pont, Musée d'Art Contemporain, project for Marseille - Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture 2013 Pedro Lasch, Susan Harbage Page and Yinka Shonibare, Nasher, Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, USA 2013 Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, England, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA 2013 Victoriana: The Art of Revival, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England 2013 Kunst & Textile, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany 2013 Miniartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy

Cultural attractions in the area include the Freud Museum, Keats House, Kenwood House, Fenton House, the Isokon building, Burgh House (which also houses Hampstead Museum), and the Camden Arts Centre.

Thomas Micchelli writes about Rembrandt's Self - Portrait from Kenwood House, London, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York through May 20, 2012.

The nearest he got to that was with the Trojan War sculptures he showed at Kenwood House, Hampstead, in 1994; welded steel combined with fired ceramic to make vertical forms suggesting figures.

He was dead by 63, leaving behind his self - portrait at Kenwood House in London, in which, as his life closes, he triumphs through the profundity of his vision.

The newly reopened Kenwood House has been furnished with «comfy seats» in a conscious bid to welcome visitors to relax and enjoy the atmosphere of the house.

The exhibition from Kenwood House will be complemented by a companion exhibition, European Masters: Treasures of Seattle.

Recently re-opened after a # 5.95 m restoration, Kenwood House is set in Hampstead's lush rolling hills and has an impressive collection of Old Master and British paintings ranging from works by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough.

• At Kenwood House, London NW3.

According to the Guardian, Belsey, a former director of Gainsborough House, has claimed that Miss Brummell, an early 1780s portrait hanging at Kenwood House, is likely to be the work of the painter's nephew and assistant, Gainsborough Dupont.

There is a city tradition, from the private tranquil libraries of stately homes such as North London's 17th - century estate Kenwood House in Hampstead Heath to the British Library's Reading Room in King's Cross — a place where the etiquette policy strongly discourages the presence of mobile phones entirely with tactfully placed signs.

The illegitimate child of a black slave and a Royal Navy captain (Matthew Goode), Dido Belle Lindsay was sent to live with her great - uncle, the Lord of Mansfield and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, in the safe and protected environment of Kenwood House in Hampstead, spared from an underprivileged and poverty - stricken upbringing, and raised as an aristocrat along with the other girl in the painting, her cousin Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon).

Both women were raised at Kenwood House, the country estate of Lord and Lady Mansfield.

When her father is redeployed abroad, it is left to his uncle, Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice, to raise her at his estate, Kenwood House on the outskirts of London, along with his own daughter, Lady Elizabeth Murray.

Not exact matches

From Kenwood in North London, to the home of Charles Darwin, Down House in Bromley, the great homes of London are free for schools to explore this term on a self - led visit.

With air conditioning a delete option on the 675LT, JVC Kenwood has been able to remove the console that houses its controls.

Tracker forged wheels; Pirrelli Pzero 295 / 25/22 front and 345 / 30/22 rear tires Exterior Modifications: StingRay PR widebody conversion; custom dual - vented fenders; Forgiato Difalco retractable grille; Oberly Airbrush Studios & Demented Customs custom paint; House of Kolors custom materials; KustomKings custom glow - in - the - dark accent colors Interior Modifications: Alea Leather three - tone leather seats and suede headliner; RPM five - point rollcage and racing harness; Kenwood navigation; Scosche double - DIN kit; Innovate air, fuel and boost gauges; MTX Audio; IC Realtime Inc. custom video surveillance system

[57][58] Lennon later hung a pair of Sutcliffe's paintings in his house (Kenwood) in Weybridge, and McCartney had a Paolozzi sculpture in his Cavendish Avenue home.

Don't miss Johannes Vermeer's classic work The Guitar Player, now back at Kenwood after a stint at the National Gallery during the house's renovation.

The seats left Kenwood in 1922 when the Mansfields sold off the house's furniture at auction and for many years their whereabouts were unknown.

Here are some other things we paid to have upgraded: • finished garage — drywalled, painted, house & garage door openers • knock down ceiling texture • stairway rail to box, square newel posts, stained balusters • stainless steel kitchen appliances (fridge not included) • gourmet kitchen (double oven, gas cooktop) • fireplace surround (granite), raised hearth, Kenwood mantel • cased windows • craftsman - style doors, board and batten in entryway • laundry utility sink (the only way we could have additional plumbing added to the laundry room) • full basement with finished bonus room • full bathroom rough - in in basement • egress basement window • stairway windows