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so sometime in the 1650s anne wilmot decorated her house in a way seemingly designed to Specifically piss off her puritan parliamentarian brother & sister-in-law she was having to call in favours with so the govt didn't confiscate the lee/wilmot estates...like. the portrait of "Our Saviour's head" is such a SUPREMELY Extra assertion of Royalist sympathies ("damn remember when you guys ...martyred the King?") but then ...the picture of some Pope.....cannot overstate: this woman Profoundly Disliked catholics. but she was like "....if i HAVE to constantly be hosting oliver cromwell's goddaughter in my house i WILL be forcing her to look at the Pope Portrait while we make casual conversation-"

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Collins, Nancy Lancaster's Butler at Ditchley ..

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Ditchley Great, Oxfordshire, Watercolor by Alexandre Serebriakoff

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Elizabeth I, The Ditchley Portrait—painted for the Queen’s Accession Day tilt visit to Ditchley in Oxfordshire, she is shown commanding the elements and towering into space (Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1592, CE).

(via Art History)