New paintings at Waddesdon Manor: recent acquisitions for the Rothschild collection: the collections at Waddesdon have been enhanced by the recent acquisition of four major paintings, by Callet, Chardin and Panini.(Antoine-Francois Callet, Jean-Simeon Cardin and Giovanni Paolo Panini)

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Waddesdon is the only house complete and open to the public in which the distinctive and influential gout Rothschild of the late 19th century can still be seen intact. On a hilltop overlooking the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, it was built between 1877 and 1883 by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild (1839-98) to show off his works of art and to entertain the fashionable world (Fig. 1). (1) Famed for its French porcelain, furniture and textiles, British 18th-century portraits, 17th-century Northern genre paintings and princely treasures from the ...

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