Alnwick castle, featured in the current edition of Interiors magazine, seems to have been redecorated recently. Its dining room has a dark green colour scheme which I am now studying with interest. They have used silk on the walls, rather than my humble wallpaper.
There is a slight coincidence here. One of my portraits is of the Countess of Northumberland, an ancester of the present Duke. She later married the Earl of Montagu who built Boughton House. She sat several times for Lely. The original version, of which mine is one of many studio copies, is still at Boughton.
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