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...But brothels and other attractions also proliferated and the gentry moved out, leaving the central gardens to ruin....
...The interior is steeped in the eccentricities of the English gentry. Glass cabinets filled with smoking pipes are set alongside paintings of bulldogs....
...sometimes a more cerebral and convivial note was struck by the fashionable lodgers and their guests: James Boswell held brilliant literary soirées with Dr Johnson, the actor David Garrick and portraitist Joshua...
...He had also painted Protestant gentry such as Sir Peter Carew who, on the accession of the Catholic Mary, was involved in a botched rising....
...Tate Britain’s blockbuster this season is Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity, until 18 September, celebrating the founder president of the Royal Academy, who brought the magnates and gentry of the...
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