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Family activities, fine arts study tours, 1920s days, jazz concerts, classic car days, Civil War re-enactments, conservation displays, workshops and lecture lunches |  | Guided tours
Free house taster tours, garden tour and introductory talks when available. Private house and garden tours by written arrangement |
About this property
One of the National Trust's most important art collections can be found in this house, built in 1695 of mellow local stone, then purchased and remodelled in 1927–29 by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (Chairman of Shell, 1921–46, and son of the company's founder). Upton contains his outstanding collection of English and Continental Old Master paintings over three floors, including works by Hogarth, Stubbs, Romney, Canaletto, Brueghel and El Greco; Brussels tapestries; French Sèvres porcelain; Chelsea and Derby figures, and 18th-century furniture. There is an exhibition of paintings and publicity posters commissioned by Shell during Viscount Bearsted's chairmanship; also Lady Bearsted's restored bedroom and Art Deco bathroom. The garden is very fine, with lawns, terraces, orchard, herbaceous borders, kitchen garden, ornamental pools and an interesting 1930s water garden, together with the National Collection of Asters.
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