Qualla: Kenwood House https://qualla.com/kenwood-house en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/kenwood-house-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kenwood House https://qualla.com/kenwood-house Kenwood House: Introduction https://qualla.com/kenwood-house/ Photo credit Ricardalovesmonuments, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1925, Edward Guinness, the 1st Earl of Iveagh, bought Kenwood House and its remaining 74 acres of grounds from the 6th Earl of Mansfield. Two years later, Iveagh died and left the whole estate to the nation. The paintings he had assembled — 63 Old Masters, acquired in the 1880s and 1890s when the art market offered such things at prices that now seem fantastical — came with it. Vermeer's 'The Guitar Player,' a late Rembrandt self-portrait, portraits by Gainsborough and Frans Hals: all of them now hang in a house at the edge of Hampstead Heath, free to enter, open to anyone who climbs the hill.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/kenwood-house-wp/gcpv-kenwood-house-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kenwood House: Three Hundred Years of Occupation https://qualla.com/kenwood-house/ Photo credit Public domain. The original house on the Kenwood estate is thought to have been built around 1616 by John Bill, the King's Printer. By 1694 it had been rebuilt by William Bridges, Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, and an orangery was added around 1700. The house changed hands several times befo...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/kenwood-house-wp/gcpv-kenwood-house-three-hundred-years-of-occupation.mp3 0:06 2 full Kenwood House: Royal Visitors and Russian Exiles https://qualla.com/kenwood-house/ Photo credit Public domain. The history of Kenwood's tenants is unlikely. In 1794, King George III visited the 2nd Earl of Mansfield there — Queen Charlotte noted the king was curious about Robert Adam's architectural improvements. In July 1835, William IV and Queen Adelaide arrived with 800 members of the ...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/kenwood-house-wp/gcpv-kenwood-house-royal-visitors-and-russian-exiles.mp3 0:06 3 full Kenwood House: The Collection https://qualla.com/kenwood-house/ Photo credit Thomas Gainsborough, Public domain. The paintings that hang at Kenwood today came from Iveagh's collecting in the 1880s and 1890s, when he assembled Old Master portraits, landscapes, and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish works alongside British painters. The Vermeer — 'The Guitar Player,' one of only about 37 authenti...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/kenwood-house-wp/gcpv-kenwood-house-the-collection.mp3 0:06 4 full Kenwood House: Heath, Concerts, and Sculpture https://qualla.com/kenwood-house/ Photo credit Photographer: User:Justinc, CC BY-SA 2.0. Kenwood House sits at the northern edge of Hampstead Heath, and the relationship between the house and the landscape around it is one of the pleasures of the place. The estate has a designed landscape near the house — probably originally by Humphry Repton — that grades into woodl...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/kenwood-house-wp/gcpv-kenwood-house-heath-concerts-and-sculpture.mp3 0:06 5 full