Excursion 2019 “Literary London”
also famous for its outstanding collection of paintings. Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, who owned the villa decades later, collected paintings to evoke the atmosphere of an 18th-century gentleman’s [...] details and register in the whole villa. The most famous room is the ‘Great Library’ with a marvellous painted ceiling, where Lord Mansfield would welcome his honoured guests. William Murray, a Scottish lawyer [...] Dido. David Martin’s famous portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin Elizabeth Murray was painted in the garden of the Kenwood House. We were introduced to the story behind this picture and to the