National Trust, Dorneywood

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Garden, parklands or rural site in Buckinghamshire

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Dorneywood is an eighteenth-century brick house set in the grounds of Burnham Beeches. The house was added to around 1850 and rebuilt in the same plain Georgian style after a fire in 1910. Sir Courtauld Greenwood Courtauld-Thomson (1865–1954) acquired the house in 1919. He gave it to the National Trust in 1942, to serve as an official country residence for a Secretary of State or other Minister of the Crown. The most significant painting, on the draught lobby screening the front door, is ‘Ave Silvae Dornii’ (1928), a trompe l’oeil by Rex Whistler.

Buckinghamshire England

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Artworks

  • Sir Courtauld Greenwood Courtauld-Thomson (1865–1954), Baron Courtauld-Thomson CB, KBE
    Sir Courtauld Greenwood Courtauld-Thomson (1865–1954), Baron Courtauld-Thomson CB, KBE Maurice Frederick Codner (1888–1958)
    National Trust, Dorneywood
  • La Calanque de Cassis, Marseilles
    La Calanque de Cassis, Marseilles Winston Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
    National Trust, Dorneywood
  • Piazza San Marco, Venice
    Piazza San Marco, Venice Francesco Guardi (1712–1793) (school of)
    National Trust, Dorneywood
  • An Elderly Man and Woman Playing Stringed Instruments
    An Elderly Man and Woman Playing Stringed Instruments Lucas van Leyden (c.1494–1533) (after)
    National Trust, Dorneywood
  • Windsor from the Meadows
    Windsor from the Meadows Alfred Vickers (1786–1868)
    National Trust, Dorneywood
  • A Thatched Cottage
    A Thatched Cottage Jan Wijnants (c.1635–1684) (attributed to)
    National Trust, Dorneywood
  • Dead Songbirds on a Table
    Dead Songbirds on a Table Cornelis Lelienbergh (1626–1676)
    National Trust, Dorneywood
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Artists

  • Triumph of the three Christian Virtues
    Jacob de Wit (1695–1754)
  • Westminster from the South, London
    William Anderson (1757–1837)
  • Roman Peasants Conversing in a Grotto amongst Ruins
    Isaac de Moucheron (1667–1744)
  • Dead Hare
    Cornelis Lelienbergh (1626–1676)
  • Self Portrait
    Winston Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
  • Orleans House, Twickenham, Middlesex
    Alfred Vickers (1786–1868)
  • Two Profiles of Girls and a Mask
    British School
  • Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
    Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641)
  • The Island of San Giorgio in Alga, Venice, Italy
    Francesco Guardi (1712–1793)
  • Landscape in Dunes with a Married Couple
    Jan Wijnants (c.1635–1684)
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