The Hall and Dining Room house a collection of paintings by Sir William Nicholson on loan from the Bacon family, who commissioned them.

Pictures include Hawking, showing Nicholson’s son Ben who became an artist in his own right and Nancy, a portrait of his eldest daughter who later became the wife of writer Robert Graves.

Other artists represented in Fenton House include Jan Breugel, Albrecht Durer, Francis Sartorius, John Russell and GF Watts.

On the main staircase and top landing hangs a small collection of pictures of the popular eighteenth-century actress Dora Jordan and her family. She was the mistress of William IV when he was Duke of Clarence and some of their descendants, the Hart Davis family, lived in Fenton House in the nineteenth century.