Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London

Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London accompanies the first tour of an important group of works from the Iveagh Bequest, a magnificent painting collection that resides at Kenwood House, a neoclassical villa in London. Donated to the nation by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847-1927) and heir to the world's most successful brewery, the collection was shaped by the tastes of the Belle Epoque-Europe's equivalent to America's Gilded Age-and reveal the earl's taste for the portraiture, landscape, and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish works that could typically be found in English aristocratic collections.The publication includes an illustrated checklist of the works in the exhibition and texts by Guest Curator Susan Jenkins, Curator at English Heritage; Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria & Albert Museum and formerly Chief Curator at English Heritage; and Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the works in the publication are Thomas Gainsborough's Mary, Countess Howe (ca. 1764), Frans Hals's Pieter van den Broecke (1633), Rembrandt's sublime Portrait of the Artist (ca. 1665), Joshua Reynold's Lady Louisa Manners (1779), and Anthony van Dyck's Princess Henrietta of Lorraine Attended by a Page (1634).