Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century
mansion, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and
altered in the 1870s by Anthony Salvin. The site was previously occupied
by a fortified manor house founded by Henry de Percy, the 13th-century
chapel and undercroft of which still survive. Today's building houses an
important collection of paintings and sculptures, including 19 oil
paintings by J. M. W. Turner (some owned by the family, some by Tate
Britain), who was a regular visitor to Petworth, paintings by Van Dyck,
carvings by Grinling Gibbons and Ben Harms, classical and neoclassical
sculptures (including ones by John Flaxman and John Edward Carew), and
wall and ceiling paintings by Louis Laguerre. There is also a
terrestrial globe by Emery Molyneux, believed to be the only one in the
world in its original 1592 state.
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