National Trust - Wimpole Estate
Grand Georgian country house with a trompe l'oeil Baroque chapel, parkland and a working farm.
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This guide to the chapel at Wimpole Hall, the great house of the Wimpole Estate outside Cambridge, follows Sir James Thornhill, the court painter knighted by George the First, through his last major commission in the seventeen-twenties. It turns on his friendship with his patron Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, and on a style of painting that the age was beginning to leave behind. Best heard standing in the middle of the chapel, facing the altar.
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