The circular plaques are decorated in monochrome by De Gree, while four
semi-circular compartments are believed to have been painted by Zucci, the
husband of Angelica Kauffmann. * The heavy white marble mantel, of classic
design, is possibly contemporary with the decoration. The pictures here
include two full-lengths by Rubens; a capital study of an old woman, by Gerard
Van Honthorst; a Dutch picture, by G. Peecke ; and'a portrait of Lady Harriet
Hamilton,* by Sir Thomas Lawrence. A door communicates with the yellow
drawingroom, smaller but better proportioned, which has an uncoloured Adam



She was daughter of the first Marquess of Abercorn, and died unmarried in 1803.
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