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Front Row - Below Stairs - 400 Years of Servants' Portraits


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The Scullion at Christ Church
John Riley, c.1680
The governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford

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Heads of Six of Hogarth’s Servants
William Hogarth, c 1750-5
Tate. Purchased 1982, © Tate, London 2003

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A Lady’s Maid Soaping Linen
Henry Robert Morland, c 1760s
Tate. Purchased 1984 © Tate, London, 2003

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Freeman, The Earl of Clarendon’s Gamekeeper, with a Dying Doe and Hound
George Stubbs, 1800
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

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Fish Nell, John Sutherland, Laundryman, and 'Dummy' King (Servants at Dalkeith House)
Attrib. John Ainslie, 1832
The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, KT

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The Arts Club’s Woman Chef
Francis Edwin Hodge, 1935
The Arts Club, London

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Photograph from Hawarden Castle Estate Staff album
J Burge, c.1953
Sir William Gladstone

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Viscount Coke with Heads of Department at Holkham
Andrew Festing, 1993
Holkham Estate © By kind permission of the Earl of Leicester and Trustees of the Holkham Estate
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