Paxton House is a historic house at Paxton, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, a few miles south-west of Berwick-upon-Tweed, overlooking the River Tweed. A historic house can be a Stately home, the birthplace of a famous person or a house with an interesting history Berwickshire or the County of Berwick is a Registration county, a Committee area of the Scottish Borders Council, and a lieutenancy The Scottish Borders, often referred to simply as the Borders, is one of 32 local government council areas of Scotland. Berwick-upon-Tweed ( ˈbɛrɪk- ( Scots: Berwick or historically South Berwick) situated in the county of Northumberland, is the northernmost There are other rivers with this name see Tweed River The River Tweed ( Uisge Thuaidh in Gaelic (156 kilometres or long flows primarily through the
It is a country house built for Patrick Home of Billie in an unsuccessful attempt to woo a Prussian heiress. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state Attributed to James Adam (possibly in concert with John Adam), it was built between 1758 and 1766, under the supervision of James Nisbet, with extensive interiors (c1773) by Robert Adam, as well as furniture by Thomas Chippendale. James Adam ( 21 July 1732 &ndash 20 October 1794) was a Scottish Architect and Furniture designer, but John Adam ( 5 March 1721 &ndash 25 June 1792) was a Scottish Architect. Robert Adam ( 3 July 1728 &ndash 3 March 1792) was a Scottish neoclassical Architect, Interior designer Thomas Chippendale ( Otley, near Leeds baptised - November 1779 was a London Cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian The East Wing was added in 1812-13 by architect Robert Reid to house the library and picture gallery.
Formerly the seat of the Home of Paxton family, who became Foreman-Home, Milne-Home, and finally Home-Robertson as the direct male lines failed and the inheritance progressed through a female. In 1988, the last laird, John David Home Robertson, a socialist member of Parliament, placed the house and grounds into the Paxton House Historic Building Preservation Trust. John Home-Robertson (born December 5, 1948) is a Labour politician in Scotland. It is now open to the public and is a Partner Gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland. The National Galleries of Scotland are the five national galleries of Scotland and two partner galleries
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Paxton House Gallery
Inside the halls of the Paxton House, lies a gallery. In the year 1780, Patrick Home of Wedderburn returned from his eight year long Grand Tour with an extensive collection of British and European paintings. Unfortunately, he died even before the paintings were unpacked. Later on, Miss Jean Home, who was to inherit the house and the paintings, hired or employed the Master of the Kings Works, architect Robert Reid (1776 - 1856), to build what is now the East Wing of the Paxton House to accommodate a library and a gallery. A library is a collection of information sources resources and services and the structure in which it is housed it is organized for use and maintained by a public body an institution The gallery is now the only room left specifically to house a collection of paintings.
The Paxton Trust in association with The National Galleries of Scotland have carefully restored the Gallery to its original colour scheme, and although Patrick Home's pictures are now dispersed, an important collection from the National Gallery has been hung in their place in the 19th century manner.
References
Borders and Berwick, by Charles A Strang, Rutland Press, 1994, p. 54, ISBN 1-873190-10-7
See also
Wedderburn Castle. Wedderburn Castle, near Duns, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, is an 18th century country house
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