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That granitic certainty was propped up by a docile servant class, whose images occupy some of the book's most haunting pages. The bride of the second son of the first Baron Leconfield, for instance, undertook to photograph "all the dear servants at Petworth, 1860, when I came there." They include the butler, the underbutler, the park keeper, the keeper of the stallions, the coachman, the housekeeper. Lord Leconfield's valet, Lady Leconfield's maid, the French cook, the first groom of the chambers, and so on. Big houses often had as many as 50 people working...
...toward the end of Turner's life, the flow of myth and history subjects abated as he went deeper than any earlier painter had gone into the structure of color. At Petworth, enjoying the relaxed and eccentric patronage of Lord Egremont, he produced paintings like Music Party, Petworth: its forms dissolving in a bath of russet light would look extreme for Monet in 1895, let alone in England 60 years earlier. In the last landscapes, the world of detail and substance has been fully absorbed into the vibration of light, pure self-delighting energy manifesting itself. Except for Blake...
Registered with the Jockey Club, in time for this week's Petworth handicap hurdles where her five-year-old Manicou is scheduled to run: Queen Elizabeth's racing colors, blue and buff with black cap and gold tassel. She was the first English queen to register since Queen Anne founded Royal Ascot...
...Rochester Sneath, headmaster of Selhurst School, "near Petworth in Sussex," seemed to need advice. Since fashionable Marlborough College had recently been visited by the royal family, Sneath wrote to Marlborough's headmaster: "As you are probably aware, this summer sees the 300th anniversary of the foundation of Selhurst ... I am most anxious to have the honor of entertaining Their Majesties, if this is at all feasible. How did you engineer your royal visit...
Died. Sir James Buchanan, Baron Woolavington, 85, longtime turfman, wealthy distiller (Buchanan whiskey); after long illness; in Petworth, England. Twice a Derby winner (1922-26), he never bet on a horse...