The Long Gallery, Knole
1836
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1836
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
The Long Gallery, Knole is a 1836 watercolor by Lake Price, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This room looks like a grand hallway with high, arched ceilings covered in dark wood. The walls are packed with small portraits in fancy frames, and sunlight streams in through windows at the far end. Three people stand near the center—one woman in a light dress, a man in a red coat, and a child holding his hand. The room’s design is packed with details: ornate chairs, a blue-patterned sofa, and shelves full of small statues. The woodwork on the ceiling looks almost like a honeycomb. If you like this kind of scene, check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The watercolour depicts the Long Gallery at Knole in Kent, signed and dated by William Lake Price in 1836. Knole originated as a late 15th-century archbishop’s residence, later becoming a Tudor royal palace before extensive Jacobean alterations transformed it into a country house. Constructed primarily from Kentish ragstone with later half-timbered additions, the estate passed from royal ownership to the Sackville family in the 17th century. The house underwent significant remodelling in the early 1600s and has connections to notable figures such as Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf.
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William Frederick Lake Price (1810–1896) was an English watercolourist and an innovator in mid-nineteenth-century photography.
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