Aristocracy Collection (#73)

Apley Park, near Bridgnorth, Shropshire, home of the Foster family, c1880. The house was rebuilt in Gothic style in 1811 by Thomas Whitmore

Normanhurst, Sussex, home of the Brassey family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris

Levens Hall, Cumbria, c1880. Much of the house dates from Elizabethan times, with 17th and early 19th century additions. The famous topiary garden was begun in 1694

Acton Reynald Hall, Shropshire, home of Baronet Corbet, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Eastwell Park, near Ashford, Kent, home of the Duke of Edinburgh, c1880. The house was built for George Finch Hatton in the late 18th century

Holker Hall, Cumbria, home of the Duke of Devonshire, c1880. The house was inherited in 1834 by Wiliam Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Burlington, who had it remodelled between 1838 and 1842

Sundorne Castle, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, home of the Corbet-Pigott family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Thicket Priory, York, home of the Dunnington-Jefferson family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Castle Hill, Devon, home of Earl Fortescue, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris

Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, home of the Earl of Tankerville, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Nuneham Park, Oxfordshire, home of the Harcourt family, c1880. The house was built in 1756 for Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt

Bearwood, near Wokingham, Berkshire, home of the Walter family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Pynes, Devon, home of the Northcote family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris

Brechin Castle, Brechin, Angus, Scotland, home of the Earl of Dalhousie, c1880. Most of the building dates from the 18th century

Netherhall, Cumbria, home of the Pocklington-Senhouse family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Stevenstone Park, Devon, home of the Rolle family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris

Lilburn Tower, Northumberland, home of the Collingwood family, c1880. The house was designed by John Dobson in Elizabethan style and built between 1828 and 1842

Eggesford House, Devon, home of the Earl of Portsmouth, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Meer Hall, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, home of the Bearcroft family, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Hutton Hall, Cumbria, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume VI

Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, home of the Duke of Hamilton, c1880
Hamilton Palace, South Lanarkshire, home of the Duke of Hamilton, c1880. Said to have been the largest non-royal residence in the western world at one time, Hamilton Palace was built in the 1690s

Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire, home of Lord Carrington, c1880. The house as it appears here was designed by James Wyatt for Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, who acquired the estate in 1798

Willesley Hall, Derbyshire, home of the Earl of Loudoun, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Brancepeth Castle, Lord Boyne, c1880
Brancepeth Castle, County Durham, home of Lord Boyne, c1880. A print from A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland

Bagshot Park, Surrey, home of the Duke of Connaught, c1880. Built in 1879 for Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, the house is today the home of the Earl and Countess of Wessex

Lambton Castle, County Durham, 19th century. Lambton Castle is the ancestral seat of the Lambton family, Earls of Durham. Built in the style of a Norman castle early in the 19th century

Dalmeny House, South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, Scotland, 20th century. Designed in Tudor style by William Watkins, Dalmeny House was completed in 1817. It was built for the Earl of Rosebery

Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran, Scotland, 20th century. Brodick Castle used to be the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton

Mount Stuart House, Bute, Scotland, 1924-1926. Artist: Valentine & Sons
Mount Stuart House, Bute, Scotland, 1924-1926. Mount Stuart is a Gothic Revival house built in the 1870s for the 3rd Marquess of Bute. The architect was Sir Robert Rowland Anderson

Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scotland, 1924-1926. Artist: Valentine & Sons
Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scotland, 1924-1926. The Seat of the Earls of Lauderdale, Thirlestane Castle in the Scottish Borders was built in the late 16th century

Arrest of Sir John Fenwick, 1696 (late 19th century)
Arrest of Sir John Fenwick, 1696 (19th century). Sir John Fenwick (1645-1697) was an English Jacobite conspirator who was beheaded in 1697

Robert Harley, the Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), going to trial, 18th century (19th century). From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume IV, published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co

Escape of the Earl of Nithsdale from the Tower of London, 1716, (19th century). William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale (1676-1744) escaped execution by exchanging clothes with his wifes maid

Baron Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin (1768-1839), 1857. Artist: DJ Pound
Baron Jacques Felix Emmanuel Hamelin (1768-1839), 1857. Hamelin was a rear admiral of the French navy and later a Baron. He commanded numerous naval expeditions

Earl of Cardigan, 1857. Artist: DJ Pound
Lieutenant General James Thomas Brudenell (1797-1868), 7th Earl of Cardigan, 1857. Cardigan commanded the Light Brigade of the British Army during the Crimean War

The duel between the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Winchelsea, 1829 (c1895)
The duel between the Duke of Wellington (1759-1862) and the Earl of Winchelsea (1791-1858), 1829 (c1895). From Cassells Illustrated History of England, volume VII (c1895)

The tomb of a feudal lord at Beni Hasan, built about 1900BC, Egypt, 1905. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
The tomb of a feudal lord at Beni Hasan, built about 1900BC, Egypt, 1905. This is the tomb of Khnumhotep who was...one of those feudal barons of the twelfth dynasty whom the Pharaoh was forced to

Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, with his wife, Joan, Princess of Wales, c1850
Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, with his wife, Joan, Countess of Kent, c1850. Edward (1330-1376), popularly known as the Black Prince

William Maule (1700-1782), 1st Earl of Panmure, soldier and politician, c1880. Artist: DJ Pound
William Maule (1700-1782), 1st Earl of Panmure, soldier and politician, c1880. From a supplement to the Illustrated News of the World, London

Count Benckendorff and Lord Errington, 1908. Artist: Queen Alexandra
Count Benckendorff and Lord Errington, 1908. From Queen Alexandras Christmas Gift Book, Photographs from My Camera, by Queen Alexandra, published by The Daily Telegraph (London, 1908)

Frances, Countess of Essex, 1757, (1905). Artist: James McArdell
Frances, Countess of Essex, 1757, (1905). Portrait of Frances Capel (nee Williams), Countess of Essex (1735-1759), wife of William Capel, 4th Earl of Essex

Lola de Valence, c1850-1880 (1924). Artist: Edouard Manet
Lola de Valence, c1850-1880 (1924). A print from A History of French Etching from the 16th Century to the Present Day, by F L Leipnik, John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, London, 1924

The Duke of Saxony and the Marquis of Brandenburg, c16th century (1849). A 19th century version based on an original manuscript illustration in Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937), 1893. Artist: W&D Downey
William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937), 1893. Conway was an English art critic, politician and mountaineer

Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859-1947), British socialist, economist and reformer. Artist: W&D Downey
Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859-1947), British socialist, economist and reformer. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, fourth series, Cassell and Company Limited (London)

Herbert of Raglan, (Charles of Somerset, Baron), aged 30, A. D 1505, 20th Century
Herbert of Raglan (Baron Charles of Somerset), 1505. This picture once masqueraded as a portrait of Henry VII

Anne, Marquise de Veere, wife of Adolphe De Bourgogne, (1927). Artist: Jan Gossaert
Anne, Marquise de Veere, wife of Adolphe De Bourgogne, (1927). A print from Flemish and Belgian art 1300-1900, The Exhibition organised by the Anglo-Belgian Union at Burlington House, London

Portrait of Don Diego Messia, Marques de Leganes, (1927). Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Portrait of Don Diego Messia, Marques de Leganes, (1927). A print from Flemish and Belgian art 1300-1900, The Exhibition organised by the Anglo-Belgian Union at Burlington House, London

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