Longford Castle

The Treasures and the Collectors

Amelia Smith, William Earl of Radnor

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English

Unicorn Publishing Group
31 October 2017

Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Palaces, chateaux, country houses; British & Irish history; Social & cultural history

Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned today by their descendants. Until now, it has been relatively less known amongst the pantheon of English country houses. It explores the acquisition and commission of works of art from Holbein's Erasmus and The Ambassadors, to exquisite landscapes by Claude and Poussin, and family portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds. It explores how Longford, an unusual triangular-shaped castle that inspired Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Disney's The Princess Diaries, was decorated and furnished to house these works of fine art. The book brings the story up to the present day, with an introduction and conclusion by the current owner, the 9th Earl of Radnor, himself a keen collector of art, to celebrate this remarkable house and collection.

By: Amelia Smith
With: William Earl of Radnor
Imprint: Unicorn Publishing Group
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 280mm, Width: 250mm,
ISBN: 9781910787687
ISBN 10: 191078768X
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 31 October 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amelia Smith grew up in Surrey and attended university in London. She recently completed a PhD on the Longford Castle art collections at Birkbeck College in collaboration with the National Gallery. Amelia Smith graduated in 2012 with a First Class degree in History of Art from University College London, where she was awarded the Gombrich Prize and Zilkha Prize. She went on to gain an MA in Curating the Art Museum at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2013, and undertook a curatorial internship at the National Portrait Gallery, researching for the exhibition 'The Great War in Portraits' (2014).