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Portrait of Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Details
- Date
- 1829
- Author / Artist
- John Jackson
- Dimensions
- 274cm by 178cm
- Material
- Oil on Canvas
- Catalogue number
- SS.42
- Current location
- State Drawing Room
Portrait of Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, full-length, standing, in the uniform of the Greville Green of the Bucks Hussars. Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1830, no. 143.
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Portrait of Anne Eliza, Lady Temple
Details
- Date
- 1801
- Author / Artist
- Sir William Beechey
- Dimensions
- 254cm high by 143cm wide
- Material
- Oil on Canvas
- Catalogue number
- SS.43
- Current location
- State Drawing Room
Portrait of Anne Eliza, Lady Temple, later Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, 1779 – 1836. Full length standing wearing white dress, accompanied by her son Lord Cobham and her pug dog. Oil on canvas. Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802
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Portrait of Richard Grenville, 2nd Marquess of Buckingham, and 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
Details
- Date
- Early 19th century
- Author / Artist
- Sir Willaim Beechey
- Dimensions
- 260cm by 160cm
- Material
- Oil on Canvas
- Catalogue number
- SS.44
- Current location
- State Drawing Room
Portrait of Richard Grenville, 2nd Marquess of Buckingham, and 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, full-length, in military uniform, standing by his charger.
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A set of 16 Stone Busts (Temple of Worthies)
Details
- Date
- 1733
- Author / Artist
- John Michael Rysbrack
- Dimensions
- Material
- Stone
- Catalogue number
- SS.47.1-16
- Current location
- Gardens
A set of sixteen stone busts, housed in the Niches of the Temple of British Worthies at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, by Michael Rysbrack and collaborators, documented 1732-1745
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The Family of Darius before Alexander
Details
- Date
- mid 17th century
- Author / Artist
- Christoph Veyrier
- Dimensions
- 115 x 142 cm
- Material
- Marble
- Catalogue number
- SS.50
- Current location
- North Hall
In 333 BC Alexander defeated Darius III, the last king of the Achaemenid Empire, at the Battle of Issus.Though Darius fled, his mother, wife and two daughters were captured by Alexander, who treated them with kindness and honour. According to Plutarch: [He] ‘gave them leave to bury whom they pleased of the Persians, and to make use for this purpose what garments and furniture they thought fit out of the booty. He diminished nothing of their equipage, or of the attentions and respect formerly paid them, and allowed larger pensions for their maintenance than they had before. But the noblest and most royal part of their usage was, that he treated these illustrious prisoners according to their virtue and character.’ (Plutarch 33:21).
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Classical Busts Return to Stowe House’s North Hall After 200 Years
Stowe House is celebrating the completed restoration of its grand North Hall — a spectacular reception room first designed in the 1730s by William Kent. As the final touch to a six-year, £75,000 restoration, nine classical busts have been installed.
18 August 2025
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The Heraldic Achievements of the Grenville, Temple Nugent, and Chandos Families
Details
- Date
- 1806
- Author / Artist
- P Sonnard
- Dimensions
- 132 cm diameter
- Material
- Oil on parchment
- Catalogue number
- SS.51
- Current location
- Gothic Library
The Gothic Library was commissioned by George-Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham and built to a design by Sir John Soane between 1805 and 1807. The painting shows the 726 armorial bearings of the Temple, Nugent, Brydges, Chandos and Grenville families.
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The Bucks Hussars
Details
- Date
- 1900
- Author / Artist
- Leonard Varney
- Dimensions
- 31 x 102 cm
- Material
- Photographs
- Catalogue number
- SS.52
- Current location
- Archives
Two large plate photograps of the Bucks Hussars.
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Marquess’s Urn
Details
- Date
- late 1700's
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- 190cm
- Material
- Stone
- Catalogue number
- SS.54
- Current location
- Warpole Court
The “Marquess’ Urn” is a Kentian pattern stone amphora urn, slender collar with a maskhead, one handle missing, inscription and indistinctly dated, gadrooned lower section. The National Trust had a fully restored replica created which can be seen when visiting the gardens.
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Large Elephant Bird Egg
Details
- Date
- pre 17th century
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- Material
- Shell
- Catalogue number
- SS.55
- Current location
- Science
A large Elephant Bird egg, an intact Aepyornis Maximus, Madagascar, before 17th century. Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. They are thought to have become extinct around 1000 AD. Aepyornis maximus is possibly the largest bird to have ever lived, with their eggs being the largest known for any amniote. It is likely that this example formed part of a cabinet of curiosities at Stowe, before being misplaced.
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Bass drum
Details
- Date
- 19th century
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- Material
- wood & hide
- Catalogue number
- SS.56
- Current location
- CCF
Bass drum, painted crests; Royal artillery(T.A) side drum, painted crest and Stowe School.
