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3 unusual facts about Rokeby Park


Rokeby Park

The house is well known as the original English home of the painting The Toilet of Venus by Diego Velázquez, now known in English as The Rokeby Venus.

It is the private home of Sir Andrew Morritt but is open to the public on Monday and Tuesday afternoons between May Bank Holiday and August Bank Holiday.

Rokeby Venus

Despite this, nudes by foreign artists were keenly collected by the court circle, and this painting was hung in the houses of Spanish courtiers until 1813, when it was brought to England to hang in Rokeby Park, Yorkshire.



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