The Lower Gallery
© National Trust
In pride of place in this room, and arguably some of the most important pieces in the Anglesey Collection, are two paintings by Claude Lorraine (1600 - 1682). The Father of Psyche sacrificing at the Temple of Apollo (1663) and The Landing of Aeneas (1675). They were purchased by the First Lord Fairhaven at a sale of, H.R.H the Duchess of Kent in 1947.
Other items on display in this room:
- Red lacquer furniture, Chinese, Ming period
- In display case: a collection of carved oriental hardstone miniatures, including
- Jade
- Quartz amethyst, and
- Cornelian
- Steinway grand piano, New York and Hamburg 1906. Painted and inlaid case decorated by Cottier of New York.
- Marble 'Amorino' statue by Canova.
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