England’s greatest aristocratic estate
Comprising a Grade I listed house, a 1,822-acre park and one of Europe’s most significant private art collections, Chatsworth House is home to the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and has been passed down through the Cavendish family since 1549. In the 1950s, the 11th Duchess, Deborah “Debo” Mitford, set out a blueprint for its current incarnation as a destination for art and design, and today Chatsworth stages an ambitious program of exhibitions in the house and grounds. Works in the collection span 4,000 years, from ancient Roman and Egyptian sculpture, and masterpieces by Rembrandt, Reynolds and Veronese, to pieces by modern and contemporary artists including Lucian Freud, David Nash and Edmund de Waal. Particular highlights include Leonardo da Vinci’s “Leda and the Swan” (around 1503–1507), views of Venice by Canaletto, and the diamond encrusted Devonshire tiara (1865).
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