Placing faces: the portrait and the English country house in the long eighteenth century

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This is the first book to explore in detail the social, historical, political and aesthetic relationships between two important aspects of eighteenth century cultural life: portraiture and the country house, villa or estate. Houses (and their portraits) explored include Wanstead House, Althorp, Chatsworth, Windsor Castle.