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Window seat

Robert Adam

Art Funded
2010
Dimensions
66.2 x 139.7 x 45.8 cm
Vendor
Yew Tree Antiques
This neo-classical scrolled-armed window seat was part of the original suite of furniture designed and made for the library at Kenwood.

There were originally three window seats in the Library which were designed en suite with the scroll sofas in the mirror recesses opposite. They remained at Kenwood until the auction of 1922. It is the second of the window seats to return to Kenwood and will join other Adam furniture within the Adam Library, as well as Lord Mansfield’s writing desk.

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Provenance

Commissioned by 1st Earl of Mansfield for Kenwood House; by descent; C.B.King Ltd, London, 1922; ...; Lincoln Antiques Fair, 2009; Yew Tree House Antiques, New York. The work has been vetted by the Art Loss Register.

Lime, beech & silk damask

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Art we’ve helped buy at Kenwood

Wine cooler
 Acquired 1994
Window seat
 Acquired 2010
View of London from Highgate
 Acquired 1955
Two armchairs
 Acquired 1989
The Young Shepherdess
 Acquired 2003
The Temple of Mars, Rome & The Parthenon, Rome
 Acquired 1987
The Artist in the Character of Design
 Acquired 1955
Scroll sofa
 Acquired 1989
San Paolo fuori della Mura
 Acquired 1987
Rinaldo and Armida & Gualterus and Griselda
 Acquired 1955
Portrait of William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
 Acquired 2010
Portrait of Sir Godfrey Vassal Webster, Bt
 Acquired 1999
Portrait of John Joseph Merlin
 Acquired 1983
Portrait of Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Keeper
 Acquired 2007
Pair of Side-Tables
 Acquired 1956
Pair of giltwood pier glasses and sidetables
 Acquired 1994
Mrs Robert Sandilands
 Acquired 1987
Landscape with Sportsmen
 Acquired 1987
Dressing the Kitten
 Acquired 1996
Disarming of Cupid
 Acquired 1955
Commode
 Acquired 1962
Collection of Prints
 Acquired 1955
Captain Sir John Lindsay
 Acquired 2010
A pair of hall benches
 Acquired 2012
1) Landscape with Lake; 2) Landscape with Temple
 Acquired 1975

The Art Fund has helped buy 26 works for display at Kenwood House, including Joseph Wright of Derby's Dressing the Kitten and Portrait of John Joseph Merlin by Thomas Gainsborough.

In 2012 a pair of hall benches designed by Robert Adam were returned to the house after being 'lost' for 90 years, thanks to Art Fund support. The seats left Kenwood in 1922 when the Mansfields sold off the house's furniture at auction and for many years their whereabouts were unknown. It was only thanks to a photograph of the entrance hall published in Country Life in 1913 that the benches were able to be identified as originating from Kenwood. They now stand in the antechamber once again.

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