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3 unusual facts about Ben Harms


Ben Harms

Uppark, a stately home in West Sussex was gutted by fire in 1989, and restored in 1994 in the National Trust's largest renovation project.

In 2003, Gonzalez & Harms carried out work for the restoration of Christ Church, Spitalfields, involving thirty-eight existing carved oak brackets with repair work, and eleven brackets to be newly made; and above the brackets corniced mouldings which they also carved.

Petworth House

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.



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