English furniture at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Magazine Antiques, June, 2003 by Geoffrey Beard

(16.) The archives of Hoare's Bank, 37 Fleet Street, London, reveal that Charles Noel Somerset, fourth duke of Beaufort, paid Linnell [pounds]800 between October 1752 and December 1755. The largest payment in these years was [pounds]300 in 1753, which suggests that the main items of the suite were installed at Badminton House by the end of that year.

(17.) Simon Redburn," John McLean and Son," Furniture History, vol. 14 (1978), pp. 31-37, P1. 40a illustrates the same model.

(18.) Cephalus and Aurora is now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England.

(19.)I am indebted to Martin Levy for this information.

(20.) The Deepdene, Dorking, Surrey: Contents of the Mansion, Humbert and Flint, London, September 14, 1917 (third day), Lot 825.

(21.) See, for example, Margaret Jourdain, Regency Furniture, 1795-1830, rev. ed. by Ralph Fastnedge (Country Life, London, 1965), pp. 99-100, Fig. 128; and Frances Collard, Regency Furniture (Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1985), p. 318.

(22.) For the furnishing of Carlton House, see Carlton House, The Past Glories of George IV's Palace (Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, 1991).

(23.) For the Royal Pavilion, see John Morley, Regency Design, 1 790-1840: Gardens, Buildings, Interiors, Furniture (Zwemmer, London, 1993), p. 26.

(24.) Geoffrey de Bellaigue and Pat Kirkham, "George IV and the Furnishing of Windsor Castle," Furniture History, vol. 8 (1972), pp. 2-34. The history of the Nicholas Morel and George Seddon III enterprise has been retold, with the advantage of previously missing accounts, by Hugh Roberts in For the King's Pleasure: The Furnishing and Decoration of George IV's Apartments at Windsor Castle (Royal Collection, London, 2001).

(25.) There is a pair at Temple Newsam House, (Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House, vol. 1, p. 101); and another pair was sold at Christle's, London, on November 16, 1995 (A Collection of Important Furniture [property of Edward Sarofim], Lot 158).

GEOFFREY BEARD, a retired university lecturer, was a cofounder of the Furniture History Society in London. He recently received an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton, for "distinguished services to the cause of the decorative arts."