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This outstanding house beside Hampstead Heath was remodelled by Robert Adam between 1764 and 1779. He transformed the original brick building into a majestic villa for the great judge, Lord Mansfield.
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Kenwood is a neo-classical Georgian villa on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London. Today, Kenwood houses the Iveagh Bequest, an internationally important collection of paintings given to the nation by Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh. Use these objects at home or in the classroom to inspire cross-curricular learning and further your research.
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Vermeer’s Guitar Player- A concert by Saraband at Kenwood
To mark Kenwood's new display 'Double Vision', Saraband's brilliant guitarist Johan Löfving, has an instrument identical to the one in the painting and will play music that was popular with refined and accomplished Dutch ladies of the late seventeenth century.
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Double Vision: Vermeer at Kenwood
See Vermeer’s Guitar Player displayed with its doppelgänger for the first time in 300 years in a new display at Kenwood; Double Vision: Vermeer at Kenwood.
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Two paintings depicting the same subject, The Guitar Player – one signed by the great Johannes Vermeer (1632-75) and the other whose origins remain a mystery – are on display side-by-side at Kenwood in London for the first time in over 300 years.
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‘The Guitar Player’, part of the Iveagh Bequest on display at Kenwood, London, is one of Vermeer’s late works. Here we take an in-depth look at what technical analysis is beginning to tell us about the painting and about its relationship with a similar painting in the John G Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits Deaf-led BSL tours
British Sign Language (BSL) guides John Wilson and Alan Murray have created a one-hour tour of Kenwood and the John Singer Sargent exhibition.
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Kenwood House now offers a free app to help you find out more about the house, and its amazing stories and collections.
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This September, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival comes to the historic grounds of Kenwood House. HowTheLightGetsIn brings together over 200 visionary speakers and performers across eight vibrant stages for a weekend of debate, discovery and cultural celebration.