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Description: | Signed: yes Description: John Bowes, the founder of the Bowes Museum, is sitting on a boulder with game lying at his side. Streatlam Castle, his ancestral home, is visible in the distance. John Bowes was the natural son of John Lyon Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore, and of Mary Millner, a girl from a village near to Barnard Castle, in Co. Durham. Although his parents subsequently married, John did not succeed to the Strathmore title but inherited several estates, amongst which Streatlam. He and his wife Josephine spent many years collecting paintings and artefacts to form an educational museum for the people of Northern England. | Subjects: | John); landscape portrait (Bowes | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Feyen, Jacques Eugene (French painter, 1815-1908) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9023... | Go to resource |
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