The Dining
Room
The Dining Room is equipped with robust furniture designed to support the heavy meals traditionally consumed by enormous gentlemen in the company of beautiful ladies with tiny waists. Happily such traditions can be upheld here once again. The beautiful ladies with tiny waists of yesteryear look down approvingly from the walls, allowing the enormous gentlemen of today the opportunity to assess current form against the old.
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The Dinning Room is set
in preparation for another heavy meal. |
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Lady Helen Vincent, over the sideboard, was wife of the financier and diplomat, Sir Edgar Vincent, later created First and last Viscount D'Abernon. The Duchess of Leinster, to the left of the fireplace, wife of the Fifth Duke was sadly taken by consumption in 1895, just two years after this picture was painted. Business was completely suspended in Maynooth and its neighbourhood on the day of her funeral and the blinds of the houses in the village were drawn in every instance.
Alongside wreaths from the people of Kildare at the graveside
lay a great wreath measuring 5 feet in diameter, composed of
orchids, white roses, lily of the valley, tuber-roses, gardenias
and arum lilies and bearing the inscription: "From H.R.H. The
Prince of Wales, as a mark of sincere regret".
These two famously beautiful daughters of the First Earl
of Feversham were, with their husbands, members of that small
group of aristocratic and talented people known as The Souls. |
