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Images from our recent visit to Kingston Lucy, Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England.
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels).
You can find out more about Kingston Lacy by clicking Here.
Phil and Karen
1. Kingston Lacy is a country house and estate which was the family seat of the Bankes family. The current house was built between 1663 and 1665 by Ralph Bankes. Fashioned into a grand Italian palazzo in the 1830's, the house holds one of the UK’s finest private collections of paintings.
2. The Library has barely changed since the 18th-century. The painting on the ceiling, created for a palace in Bologna more than 400 years ago, was snapped up by William John Bankes in 1840.
3. The Drawing Room was used to entertain guests, beyond can be glimpsed The Saloon, which hosts masterpieces by artists such as Titian, Rubens, Jan Brueghel the Younger and Sir Peter Lely.
4. The Dining Room is dominated by the magnificent (but unfinished) The Judgement of Solomon by Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), and is filled with intricate woodwork from the elaborate boxwood doors, carved in Venice, to the walnut shutters designed by William John Bankes himself.
5. The Spanish Room (named for the paintings of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Diego Velázquez which reside there), has walls hung with gilded leather. This extravagant and glittering ‘Picture Room’ was William John Bankes’ proudest creation, the more remarkable for having been executed while he was in exile.
6. The ornate state bedroom has housed such important guests as Kaiser Wilhelm II who stayed with the Bankes family in 1907. After the death of Henry John Ralph Bankes Kingston Lacy (along with Corfe Castle) was gifted to the National Trust in 1981 - at the time the largest such bequest.
(Sources: National Trust, Wikipedia).
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels).
You can find out more about Kingston Lacy by clicking Here.
Phil and Karen
1. Kingston Lacy is a country house and estate which was the family seat of the Bankes family. The current house was built between 1663 and 1665 by Ralph Bankes. Fashioned into a grand Italian palazzo in the 1830's, the house holds one of the UK’s finest private collections of paintings.
2. The Library has barely changed since the 18th-century. The painting on the ceiling, created for a palace in Bologna more than 400 years ago, was snapped up by William John Bankes in 1840.
3. The Drawing Room was used to entertain guests, beyond can be glimpsed The Saloon, which hosts masterpieces by artists such as Titian, Rubens, Jan Brueghel the Younger and Sir Peter Lely.
4. The Dining Room is dominated by the magnificent (but unfinished) The Judgement of Solomon by Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), and is filled with intricate woodwork from the elaborate boxwood doors, carved in Venice, to the walnut shutters designed by William John Bankes himself.
5. The Spanish Room (named for the paintings of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Diego Velázquez which reside there), has walls hung with gilded leather. This extravagant and glittering ‘Picture Room’ was William John Bankes’ proudest creation, the more remarkable for having been executed while he was in exile.
6. The ornate state bedroom has housed such important guests as Kaiser Wilhelm II who stayed with the Bankes family in 1907. After the death of Henry John Ralph Bankes Kingston Lacy (along with Corfe Castle) was gifted to the National Trust in 1981 - at the time the largest such bequest.
(Sources: National Trust, Wikipedia).
