Farnley Hall (North Yorkshire)
Farnley Hall is a stately home in Farnley, North Yorkshire, England. It is located near Otley. The original early seventeenth century house was added to in the 1780s by John Carr, who also designed Harewood House.[1] The hall is now a Grade I listed building.
The property was owned by Walter Fawkes MP[2] (1769–1825), and a regular visitor was the Victorian artist and philosopher John Ruskin, who was taken with the enormous collection of paintings by J.M.W. Turner, a friend of the owner. A selection of Turner's works from the Farnley Hall collection were sold in 1890 for £25,000.[3]
Its owner, Nicholas Horton-Fawkes, was elected President of the Turner Society.[citation needed] Guy Fawkes was related to the Fawkes of Farnley.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ James Lees-Milne, Ancestral Voices, London: Chatto & Windus, 1975, p. 103
- ^ National Archives
- ^ The Washburn by Tom Bradley (published 1895, reprinted 1988)
- ^ britannia.com
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Coordinates: 53°55′18″N 1°40′21″W / 53.92153°N 1.67241°W
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