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3 unusual facts about Eversfield baronets


Eversfield baronets

It may have been painted by more than one person: someone who specialised in clothing, another in drapes, and so on, with perhaps the great court painter Sir Godfrey Kneller painting the heads, for it was the portraits that gave the sitters their identity, everything else is rather formulaic.

On the landing in Horsham Museum hang works of art from the Museum's extensive painting collection, featuring a large eighteenth century portrait of Charles Eversfield and his wife of Denne Park House.

St Leonards-on-Sea

The land that is now St Leonards was once owned by the Levett family, an ancient Sussex gentry family of Norman origin who owned the adjacent manor of Hollington, and subsequently by their descendants, the Eversfields, who rose to prominence from their iron foundries and widespread property holdings during Tudor times.



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