A vast 17th century manor house, Petworth, West Sussex, has been resided in by the Lord and Lady Egremont for a long time. In the 1820s, 3rd Earl of Egremont had admired and highly valued Turner’s paintings, and asked him to paint pictures which would be suitable for his mansion. He completed several masterpieces such as “The Red Room”, or “Petworth Park at Sunset”. In addition to Turner’s masterpieces, there are scores of great landscape paintings and portraits by Van Dyck, Reynolds, Blake, and Gainsborough, superb marble statues, cabinets with oriental landscapes, Greek sculptures, and intricate wooden carvings by Grinling Gibbons and Jonathan Lisbon displayed in the principal rooms on the ground floor. It is also worth looking at Baroque paintings on the staircase and ceilings, and Victorian kitchen where dozens of great dishes were prepared
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