Originally hung with white damask and bordered with gold, the room was known as the White Drawing Room and featured no fewer than five looking glasses as well as two full length family portraits. The white silk was later replaced by green which gradually faded. Most recently we have brought together 18th Century family portraits now hung on a cinnamon silk background.
The furniture is by Chippendale Senior and his son Chippendale the Younger, including the suite of chairs and armchairs and the mirrors on the north wall with matching rams-head tables.
Alfred Stevens was invited in 1852, newly returned from Italian studies, to supply additional paintings for the cove and centre of Adam's ceiling.
