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We're a little short on cooking utensils this #featurefriday but our Teniers shows a wonderful bellarmine or bartmann jug & offers us a chance to raise a toast to the weekend, to our sensational old masters collection, to #EnglishTourismWeek20 & to welcoming you all back soon!

Last year's Victorious exhn here at @Weston_Park included our George Housman Thomas painting of the Investiture of the Sultan Abdülaziz with the Order of the Garter by Queen Victoria in 1867. The prime version is in @RCT https://www.rct.uk/collection/406336/the-investiture-of-the-sultan-with-the-order-of-the-garter-17-july-1867 #ThrowbackThursday

This #TudorTuesday we're showing the little Francois Cluet portrait said to be of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford & 1st Duke of Somerset (c. 1500 – 22 January 1552) which hangs in the Morning Room. Beautifully detailed, he is shown in a ruff & with pearl and jewel-studded chains