Word: raveningham
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...Edmund Castell Bacon's stately English home, Raveningham Hall, in Norwich, for as long as anyone could remember, one painting, St. Jerome in Penitence Before a Crucifix, attributed to Giovanni Francesco Caroto, a minor Veronese painter, had hung in the library. Sir Edmund liked it so well he moved it to his bedroom, away from the rest of the fine collection of Gains-boroughs, Reynolds, Turners and 17th century Dutch painters. "I often paused on my way to bed to admire it," recalls Sir Edmund. "I always regarded it as a most beautiful picture...
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