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which country house on the welsh border has a set of portraits of former servants allied to verses describing their roles?
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Erddig Hall, Wrexham
http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/heritage/wales/w _ne/article_3.shtml
The unusually close relationship between family and servants is illustrated by a series of portraits of the staff, begun in the late 18th Century, and continued into the 20th.
Photographs of the staff line the basement passage - the earliest of which is a daguerreotype (an early type of photograph) of 1852. Other group photographs were taken in 1887 and 1912 and all have accompanying verse by Philip Yorke II (1849 - 1922).
In the Servant`s Hall, hang several portraits of the staff from the 18th Century. There are staff portraits at other houses of the same era, but these are of 'picturesque individuals' rather than a record of the household, as at Erddig. The series begins with the 'Negro Coachboy', who served John Mellor in the early 18th Century - verses were added to the picture by Philip Yorke I, fifty years later.
There were more portraits of the servants produced than of the Yorke's themselves. Between 1791 and 1796, six of Philip Yorke I's staff were painted by John Walters of Denbigh, featuring amongst others the gamekeeper, the housemaid, and the blacksmith. Three portraits were painted in 1830 with verses added by Simon Yorke II featuring the gardener, the carpenter and the woodman.
Erddig Hall, Wrexham
http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/heritage/wales/w _ne/article_3.shtml
The unusually close relationship between family and servants is illustrated by a series of portraits of the staff, begun in the late 18th Century, and continued into the 20th.
Photographs of the staff line the basement passage - the earliest of which is a daguerreotype (an early type of photograph) of 1852. Other group photographs were taken in 1887 and 1912 and all have accompanying verse by Philip Yorke II (1849 - 1922).
In the Servant`s Hall, hang several portraits of the staff from the 18th Century. There are staff portraits at other houses of the same era, but these are of 'picturesque individuals' rather than a record of the household, as at Erddig. The series begins with the 'Negro Coachboy', who served John Mellor in the early 18th Century - verses were added to the picture by Philip Yorke I, fifty years later.
There were more portraits of the servants produced than of the Yorke's themselves. Between 1791 and 1796, six of Philip Yorke I's staff were painted by John Walters of Denbigh, featuring amongst others the gamekeeper, the housemaid, and the blacksmith. Three portraits were painted in 1830 with verses added by Simon Yorke II featuring the gardener, the carpenter and the woodman.
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