Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
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Anglesey Abbey houses a world-class collection of furniture, silver, paintings, clocks, tapestries and statuary, all assembled by Lord Fairhaven.Buying at a time when many country houses were being demolished and their collections dispersed at auction, Lord Fairhaven was able to amass his extensive collection. There is a set of Tudor royal portraits, including the earliest known likeness of Henry VIII; a small but significant collection of works by John Constable, works by Claude Lorrain, Gainsborough, William Etty; late 18th- and early 19th-century English and French clocks; early (17th-century) and modern bronzes; and a collection of early colour-plate books, 1770-1820.
