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In its ebonised finish and turned decoration, it illustrates the influence of the Art Movement of the 1870s, in particular Norman Shaw's 'Old English' style. The chair would have fitted well into the largely Gothic interiors of the house. \r\n\r\nLord Selborne started professional life as a lawyer. He was made a peer in 1861. It is possible that he chose to build and furnish Blackmoor House in a neo-medieval style to suggest a long-established family history.","physicalDescription":"Ebonised wood chair, the turned legs enclosing a gallery of turned spindles, the back stiles turned also and the upper section framing a geometric arrangement of ring-turned elements. 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His client was Sir Roundell Palmer (1812-1895), created Earl of Selbourne in 1882, a lawyer who became Solicitor-General 1861-3 and Lord Chancellor, 1872-4 and 1880-5. Palmer bought the estate at Blackmoor in 1865. The furniture was supplied by the firm of Henry Capel, 26 Great Titchfield Street, London.","historicalContext":"Apparently no drawings for the Blackmoor furniture survive (Colin Cunningham and Prudence Waterhouse, <u>Alfred Waterhouse 1830-1905</u>, 1992, p. 174n).\r\n\r\nHenry Capel supplied much of the furniture at Blackmoor and for other Waterhouse commissions, including Eaton Hall, Balliol College, Oxford, and in Cambridge, Jesus and Pembroke Colleges. His show card for his Art Furniture illustrates a chair of similar design, with an upholstered back and seat, spindle decoration below the front seat rail and geometric turned decoration below the back rail (WID 29637.138).","briefDescription":"Chair, des. Alfred Waterhouse, man. 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