Kenwood House masterpieces presented at an exhibition in Houston

June 3 at the Houston Museum of Art, Texas, will exhibit the best works of Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough in the exhibition "The Treasures of Kenwood House" ("Treasures of Kenwood House", London), which was organized by the American Federation of Arts in New York. An exhibition of 48 paintings, most of which have never been to the United States, will visit several cities in America.

The masterpieces presented at the exhibition were donated to the English nation by Edward Cecil Guinness, the heir to the most successful brewery in the world. The collection was formed, in many respects, under the impression of Belle Epoque in Europe. Acquired mainly from 1887 to 1891, the collection contains portraits and landscapes of the seventeenth century by the Dutch and Flemish masters, very popular among the English aristocracy of that time.

Experts note that the gallery collection at Kenwood House is one of the most valuable in England. American viewers will have the opportunity to see portraits of eighteenth-century English nobility, among them the images of Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, who was the muse of George Romney, a talented English artist, and Kitty Fisher, one of London’s most famous courtesans, Dutch and Italian landscapes, and sea landscapes.

The Treasures of Kenwood House is an exceptional selection of paintings, among which there are many of the greatest painting masterpieces in the world. Prior to the opening of the exhibition at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition was at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Anna Sidorova