National Trust, Owletts

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Historic house or home in Kent

23 artworks

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Owletts is a fine example of a seventeenth-century red brick, Kentish yeoman’s house, built during the reign of Charles II. It was the home of the architect of the Empire, Lutyens’s pupil, Sir Herbert Baker (1862–1946), whose family had owned the property since 1794. He gave it to the National Trust in 1938 and it was leased, until recently, to his granddaughter. The small collection of pictures at Owletts is indigenous, predominated mostly by landscape views and a few nineteenth-century family portraits, which sadly do not include a likeness of Sir Herbert Baker himself.

The Street, Cobham, Gravesend, Kent DA12 3AP England

owletts@nationaltrust.org.uk

01304 207326

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Artworks

  • HMY 'Royal Caroline' in a Stiff Breeze
    HMY 'Royal Caroline' in a Stiff Breeze John Cleveley the elder (c.1712–1777)
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  • Friesian Bull in a Landscape
    Friesian Bull in a Landscape Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
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  • English Warships at Anchor with Boats Approaching and a Salute Being Fired
    English Warships at Anchor with Boats Approaching and a Salute Being Fired Dutch School
    National Trust, Owletts
  • Cherry Trees at Owletts
    Cherry Trees at Owletts Alfred Kingsley Lawrence (1893–1975)
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  • Landscape with a Lake
    Landscape with a Lake British School
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  • Henry Edmeadas Baker (1905–1994), in His Robes as Master of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers
    Henry Edmeadas Baker (1905–1994), in His Robes as Master of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers Muriel (Lady) Wheeler (1888–1979)
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  • Frances Georgiana Davis (d.1916), Mrs Thomas Henry Baker
    Frances Georgiana Davis (d.1916), Mrs Thomas Henry Baker British School
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  • 16 more

Artists

  • Vivien Leigh (1913–1967), as Blanche Dubois in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams
    Alfred Kingsley Lawrence (1893–1975)
  • Moonlit River Estuary Landscape, with a Church, a Mill and Two Anglers
    Member of the Pether family
  • A Shipyard on the Thames
    John Cleveley the elder (c.1712–1777)
  • Two Profiles of Girls and a Mask
    British School
  • Hunting Scene
    Dutch School
  • Reverend Frederick John Champion de Crespigny (1822–1887)
    British (English) School
  • Self Portrait
    Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
  • Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler (1892–1974)
    Muriel (Lady) Wheeler (1888–1979)
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