[68894] Wentworth Woodhouse : Whistlejacket Room

Wentworth Woodhouse, Wentworth, South Yorkshire.

Grade l listed.

Whistlejacket Room with plasterwork by Joseph Rose Snr (c1723-1780), c1750-60.

 

The room takes it name from the painting of the racehorse, Whistlejacket, by George Stubbs (1724-1806). Whistlejacket was bought by the Marquess of Rockingham in the mid 1750s. Rockingham invited Stubbs to his home at Wentworth Woodhouse in 1762 and the painting is a result of that visit. It hung in this room until 1974 but is now in the National Gallery. The picture you see today is a copy.

 

Wentworth Woodhouse was built for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693-1750) from circa 1725, the work continuing over four decades, and then passed to the Fitzwilliam family. The house is now owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust whose sole purpose is regeneration of the site for the benefit of South Yorkshire.

 

The east front was commenced by Ralph Tunnicliffe (d1736). His scheme was revised and completed by Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) who continued on the interiors for Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782).

John Carr worked for the 2nd Marquess prior to heightening the service wings for William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833).

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