Mantelpiece in drawing room, Marske Hall, Swaledale

Slide 14: In the Drawing Room, which we now enter, is a somewhat florid example of an 18th century mantelpiece in various coloured marbles. Over this is a painting which according to an accompanying tablet states it is a portrait of the Honourable Lord D’Arcy of Navan, Ireland, died 1709. Painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Such in brief is the account we have endeavoured to give of this ancient Home, and its owners, and let us express the hope that it may be as worthily upheld in the future as it has been in the past by the family who have so long possessed it.