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Há 5 dias · Description of Apsley House. Apsley House is the product of two very different styles of building and decoration. The original house was designed and furnished in the neoclassical style by Robert Adam between 1771 and 1778. Much of this was swept away when Apsley was remodelled on a grand scale for the Duke of Wellington from 1819.
El aguador de Sevilla. El aguador de Sevilla es una de las más destacadas obras de juventud de Diego Velázquez, pintada en los últimos años de su estancia en Sevilla y conservada actualmente en el Wellington Museum, instalado en el palacio londinense de Apsley House, tras haber sido regalada por Fernando VII al general Arthur Wellesley en ...
BY CHRIS SMALL. The history of Apsley House goes back some four decades prior to its purchase by the 1st Duke of Wellington in 1817. The house was completed in 1778 for Lord Apsley, later the 2nd Earl Bathurst, and was both designed and furnished by one of the late 18th century’s leading architects, Robert Adam, for a total sum of £10,000.
The house was originally built in red brick by Robert Adam between 1771 and 1778 for Lord Apsley, the Lord Chancellor, who gave the house its name. Some Adam interiors survive: the Piccadilly Drawing Room with its apsidal end and Adam fireplace, and the Portico Room, behind the giant Corinthian portico added by Wellington.
The Wellington Collection is a large art and militaria collection housed at Apsley House in London. It mainly consists of paintings, including 83 formerly in the Spanish royal collection, given to Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, who was Prime Minister as well as the general commanding the British forces to victory in the Napoleonic ...
The Story of Apsley House. A unique survival of an aristocratic home in central London. Orginally built by Robert Adam and extensively remodelled in the 1820s for the Duke of Wellington. The house is still the London residence of the Dukes of Wellington today.
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