A NINETEENTH century painting of a stately home near Richmond has returned to its roots.
The Friends of Kiplin Hall, near Scorton, bought the oil painting of the building, believed to be the work of a German artist who visited the house frequently between the 1820s and the 1860s.
More research is needed to establish the artist but the painting went on show yesterday at Kiplin Hall.
It shows a view from the south-west, including the hall and parkland, under stormy skies. The south front still has the Gothic drawing room built by the fourth Earl of Tyrconnel in the 1820s before conversion to a Jacobean style library in the early 1890s.
The eighteenth century pleasure lake curves round the west and south of the building and cattle and sheep graze the parkland.
The painting can be seen at the hall, which is open Sundays and Tuesdays, 2-5pm, until the end of September.
The Friends set up in 2002 to provide financial, marketing and other support for the hall.
The membership now tops 200, many of whom help as volunteer guides.
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