. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . THE CORNER ROOM. WILTON HOUSE I83 184 TWUIton Ibonse Montgomery. He was Lord Chamberlain to Charles I., andforms the central figure of Van Dycks celebrated picture of theHerbert family, which fills the whole of one end of the DoubleCube Room, and which is the largest picture that that artist everpainted. This was the Earl in whose time a great portion of thehouse was destroyed by fire (which event he refers to in hisspeech in the House of Lords, when attainted for high treason). THE GREAT VAN DYCK IN THE DOUBLE CUBE ROOM and who employed
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . THE CORNER ROOM. WILTON HOUSE I83 184 TWUIton Ibonse Montgomery. He was Lord Chamberlain to Charles I., andforms the central figure of Van Dycks celebrated picture of theHerbert family, which fills the whole of one end of the DoubleCube Room, and which is the largest picture that that artist everpainted. This was the Earl in whose time a great portion of thehouse was destroyed by fire (which event he refers to in hisspeech in the House of Lords, when attainted for high treason). THE GREAT VAN DYCK IN THE DOUBLE CUBE ROOM and who employed Inigo Jones to rebuild it. He died in 1640 ;and, his eldest son having died of smallpox a short time afterhis marriage with the daughter of the Duke of Buckingham, hewas succeeded by his next son, Philip, fifth Earl, whose portrait, in addition to appearing inthe big picture above mentioned, was painted by Van Dyck, andis hung in the ante-room to the Double Cube. He married (1st)Penelope, widow of Viscount Banning, by whom he had oneson, William, who succeeded him ; and (2d) Catherine Villiers,by whom he had two sons, Philip and Thomas. He died in[669, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
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