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Mentmore Towers, historically known simply as "Mentmore", is a 19th-century English country house built between 1852 and 1854 for the Rothschild family in the village of Mentmore in Buckinghamshire. Sir Joseph Paxton and his son-in-law, George Henry Stokes, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] designed the building in the 19th-century revival of late 16th and early ...
The Rothschild family originated from Frankfurt. The family rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who established his banking business in the 1760s. [1] Rothschild was able to establish an international banking family through his five sons, [2] who established businesses in Paris, Frankfurt, London, Vienna, and Naples.
Hendrik Daey, Alkmaar, 1798 (4000 florins, with pendant, R. M. Pruyssenaar and Adriaen Daey, who sold the pictures for 12,000 florins to Van Winter). In the Van Winter collection, Amsterdam, which passed by inheritance to the Van Loons, and was acquired as a whole in 1877 by the Rothschilds. In the collection of Baron Gustave de Rothschild, Paris.
Palais Albert Rothschild; Palais Nathaniel Rothschild; Palais Rothschild; Palais Rothschild (Metternichgasse) Palais Rothschild (Prinz-Eugen-Straße) Palais Rothschild (Renngasse) Château de Pregny; Princes Risborough Manor House
The collection included art acquired by the family, particularly work by Old Masters, led by Gerrit Dou’s painting “A young woman holding a hare with a boy at a window,” which dates back to ...
In the 19th century members of the English Rothschild family bought and built many country houses in the home counties, furnishing them with the art the family collected. The area of the Vale of Aylesbury, where many of the houses were situated, became known as "Rothchildshire". In the 20th century many of these properties were sold off with ...
A vast collection of art, furniture, silver, ceramics and jewelry will feature in the first dedicated North American auction of works from banking family’s French branch.
On December 12, 1972, the gorgeous and glamorous made their way into Château de Ferrières just 26 km east of Paris for the Rothschild family's legendary Surrealist Ball.