Lord Armstrong, the man behind the construction of Cragside, died without an heir and his estate passed to his great nephew. In the tradition of undeserving inheritors, he quickly spent much of the fortune and to pay his bills many of the prime artworks in the family collection, including paintings by Millais, Turner, Wilkie and Leighton, were sold in 1910.
The collection is therefore now sadly depleted, but there's a good Turner and this painting which I particularly liked.
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2 comments:
Great blog.
Thanks Frank.
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