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2015 Manor Volume 15 , No 1 Friends of Sulgrave Fall 2015 Manor Volume 15 , No 1 Dear Dames, Baroness Jill Knight of Collingtree At last our Centennial project has been completed! The On August 28 the Board of the Sulgrave Manor Trust had a last window has been repaired and installed. What a difference luncheon in the Great Hall to honor Baroness Knight for her this will make to the Manor. The wind and rain will no longer years of dedication and service to the Manor. I was lucky pour in. The school children will be more comfortable on their enough to be able to attend and represent all of you. It was a tours of the Manor. The collection will be better preserved as lovely affair attended by board and staff and a perfect opportuni- will the structure of the Manor itself. ty for Jill to bask in the praise and appreciation of all. Baroness My great thanks to all of you who contributed towards the Knight also had a lot to say about her many years with the Man- $100,000 raised to make this enormous project possible. or. She served on the Sulgrave Manor Board, served as Chair- This is my last newsletter as I go out of office in October. man of the Board and became Honorary President when she However I leave you In the stepped down as Chairman in 2011, a position she still holds. very capable hands of I was especially glad to have the opportunity to thank Jill Vicky Bradshaw. for her deep involve- Please keep in ment with the Friends mind what a former Chair- of Sulgrave Manor. I man of the Sulgrave Manor explained the special Trust said to me: “Without relationship the Friends the Dames, Sulgrave Manor of Sulgrave Manor, the would not exist.” Our con- NSCDA, and Jill have tributions make the differ- had for over ten years. ence. Sulgrave Manor edu- As you know, it has cates about the Tudor times been an international as well as telling everyone friendship that has en- about our hero, George riched both those of us Washington, whose fifth who know her and Jill great grandfather built the herself. She brags that Manor house. Baroness Jill Knight of Collingtree she is “our Baroness” The last window being rein- And bear in mind, with board members William Twiddy, to all who will listen stalled after a yearof repairs. Sulgrave Manor is more Norman Hudson and John Christopher and sings the praises of than a physical presence. It Magnay. not only Sulgrave supports two cultures Manor but also of the whose histories and values are linked. Both stand at the center Friends of Sulgrave Manor. In the last ten years she has trav- of Western Culture. elled all over the US to speak on our behalf, attended at least two Biennials, led a forum at the Sulgrave Manor Symposium in Bess Fuchs Washington D.C. and attended at least two FSM Annual meet- Senior Representative to the ings. What more could we ask? Sulgrave Manor Trust Baroness Knight is back in Parliament and as feisty as ever. She seemed extremely pleased to be honored in such a way and says she looks forward to seeing all American friends soon! Laura Rutherford Vice Chairman, Sulgrave Manor Trust 1 BOARD OF TRUSTEES SULGRAVE MANOR’S President, Mrs. David C. Fuchs NEW YORK GEORGE WASHINGTON Vice-President, Mrs. Marvin E. Bradshaw, Jr. TEXAS Recording Secretary, Mrs. Richard Marius Tempero INDIANA BY GILBERT STUART Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Ian Glenday, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Treasurer, Mrs. William H. Schaaf, Jr. KENTUCKY Mrs. V. Cassel Adamson , J. VIRGINIA The key question about the Sulgrave Manor Gilbert Stuart Katherine T. Cammack NORTH CAROLINA painting of George Washington is whether it is an early version, or Mrs. James R. C. Cobb ARKANSAS Hilary Field Gripekoven OREGON one of the many late iterations. It is important to understand that Mrs. Thomas W. Houghton TEXAS Stuart believed his copies performed an important function, beyond Mrs. Harland W. Huston, Jr. WISCONSON obvious hagiography. At a time when Washington's personal pres- Mrs. Rudolf Edward Knepper ILLINOIS Mrs. Michael D. Milone PENNSYLVANIA tige was high, because he had chosen to retire from the presidency Mrs. D. Thomas Moody FLORIDA and avoid slipping into a sort of Colonialist kingship role, Stuart Mrs. W. Latimer Snowdon, Jr. DELAWARE Mrs. Charles W. Waring SOUTH CAROLINA wanted the wider public to appreciate Washington as an actual indi- vidual - a person. Stuart believed that his depictions of Washington HONORARY TRUSTEES had special value, in that they showed the character of the man him- Mrs. John Schley Rutherford ALABAMA self. Nevertheless, a Mrs. H. Taylor Morrissette ALABAMA case may be made that Mrs. Donald J. Gerzetic ARIZONA Mrs. Katherine T. Ford CALIFORNIA the earlier the Gilbert Mrs. Charles Steven Paul INDIANA Stuart can be shown to Mrs. John B. Hubard MICHIGAN be in this sequence, the Mrs. Robert B. Field, Jr. NEW HAMPSHIRE Mrs. David G. Holdsworth NEW JERSEY more important it is. Mrs. William S. Tasman PENNSYLVANIA Given the number Mrs. C. Richard Treadway TENNESSEE of Gilbert Stuart Athe- Mrs. Everett D. Bohls TEXAS Mrs. S. Spencer N. Brown TEXAS naeum portraits in ex- Mrs. William E. Chilton, III WEST VIRGINIA istence, variations ASSOCIATE TRUSTEES from the norm are all the more interesting. Mrs. Lucian Newman, Jr. ALABAMA As conservator Valen- Mrs. Dean Blackwell-Miller ARIZONA Ms.rs. Briant Noland, ARKANSAS tine Walsh cleaned Mrs. Cecelia Ruth Cole CALIFORNIA many years of grime Mrs. Mathias C. Zeri COLORADO Restorer, Valentine Walsh with the por- Mrs. Samuel D Parkinson CONNECTICUT and hardened over- trait after its cleaning. Mrs. Edward L. Raleigh DELAWARE painting off the Mrs. J.Dapray Muir DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Sulgrave Manor por- Mrs. Michael James Lyons FLORIDA Mrs. Marvin Sparks Singletary GEORGIA trait, she discovered the remnants of a red curtain behind Washing- Mrs. C. Frank Damon HAWAII ton's head, pulled back and draped. The curtain appears to be very Mrs. Ralph A. Bogan, Jr. ILLINOIS Mrs. James Claude Brainard INDIANA thinly painted. Furthermore, her cleaning revealed a small glimpse Mrs. J. Kirby Barry II IOWA of sky appearing to the right of Washington’s head framing the Mrs. Kristine Winber IOWA drawn-back curtain. This appears to be more fully completed (or Mrs. Paul Murray Buchanan KANSAS Mrs. Harold W. Blevins KENTUCKY undamaged) than the curtain but is not totally uncovered Ms. Jayne Lobdell Middleton LOUISIANA The consensus after a discussion with a panel of experts at Mrs. Sally Foy MAINE Mrs. John Landon Reeve, IV MARYLAND Mount Vernon is that Stuart did paint the curtain. It is an interesting Mrs. Thomas Edward Melican MASSACHUSETTS variation which is likely to be early in the portrait series, as Stuart Mrs. Russell A. McNair, Jr. MICHIGAN explored the message and context he wished to portray. The usual Mrs. William L. Waldron MINNESOTA Mrs. Guy Thompson Vise, Jr. MISSISSIPPI 'brown-out' background has the merit of focusing all attention on the Mrs. Ben Hilliker MISSOURI sitter's face, as well as removing context from the image. Such cur- Mrs. Wm. Laird McNichols NEBRASKA Mrs. Jonathan P. Trace NEW HAMPSHIRE tains are found in the full length Lansdowne series, but not in most Mrs. Thomas Walker Vavrek NEW JERSEY of the portraits showing Washington’s head and shoulders. Mrs. Edward William Callahan NEW YORK Our inclination, supported by the panel of experts from Mount Mrs. John Ward Purrington NORTH CAROLINA Mrs. Mary Sikora OHIO Vernon, as well as other specialist conservators, is not to overpaint Mrs. Paul S Zerges, Jr. OHIO the newly discovered curtain. We are less sure how much of the re- Mrs. Stephen G. Soloman OKLAHOMA Mrs. Peter B. Archie OREGON maining overpaint to remove, because of the risk that some of it is Mrs. F. Worthington Hobbs III PENNSYLVANIA Gilbert Stuart’s own work. It may be that we must show it in its Ms. Briggs Larkin RHODE ISLAND current incomplete state. Many viewers won't notice it, because they Mrs. Madison Baker Wyche III SOUTH CAROLINA Mrs. James Blythe, Jr. TENNESSEE will focus on the newly cleaned face which contains a wealth of de- Mrs. Lee Marvin Folkes TEXAS tail in the painting that was hitherto obscured. The painting itself Miss Madeleine Helmer VERMONT Mrs. Robert William McCreary VIRGINIA was a sort of work in progress, as is this cleaning of it. However, Mrs. John A. Campbell WASHINGTON before it is rehung, it will be given a protective glaze, to make it safe DeArmond LaFollette Arbogast WEST VIRGINIA to show. Mrs. Gary C. Zaiser WISCONSIN Mrs. John Wallace Palm WYOMING Nancy Stewart Trustee, Sulgrave Manor Trust 2 THE LEES AND SULGRAVE MANOR came an intimate friend of Teddy Roosevelt and an honorary member of the Rough Riders. After his marriage to Ruth Moore, he returned to England and embarked on a political Last year a conservation grant from the Daughters of career, becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament for the American Revolution for matched by funds from the Fareham and representing the Fareham Division of York- Friends of Sulgrave Manor, made it possible for some of our shire for the next eighteen years until his elevation to peer- paintings and other items to find their way to conservators age. for cleaning and restoration. This created a quest for infor- The Lees took a long lease of Chequers, a country mation as to the provenance of many of the pieces. Perhaps house and 1,000 acre estate in Buckinghamshire in 1909. the biggest question concerned the Gilbert Stuart painting of After the owner died in 1912 Faith Moore and Ruth Moore George Washington.
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