Noel Joseph Desenfans (detail), James Northcote, 1796, Bourgeois bequest

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The Collection

Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of the world's most important collections of European old master paintings of the 1600s and 1700s. The collection is also one of the oldest in Great Britain.

The Collection

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Noel Desenfens by James Northcote

Noel Desenfens was engaged in assembling a collection of old master paintings for the King of Poland. Because of the King's enforced abdication they were never delivered. James Northcote has painted Desenfens with a slight smile and Ian Dejardin thinks he knows why.

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