Renishaw Hall by Desmond Seward

Author:Desmond Seward
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783961849
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson

Sacheverell profited more from Eton than Osbert, developing highly individual tastes. He was encouraged by an imaginative tutor, Tuppy Headlam, to use the school library and read what he pleased. Among the books he borrowed were Ernest Fenollosa’s Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art, just after its publication in 1912, while he devoured William Beckford and Gustave Flaubert. The son of a man who admired the new as well as the old, Sachie was at the same time fascinated by what was most up to date in art and literature. At sixteen he began a correspondence with Filippo Marinetti, impressed by his Futurist Manifesto. He also took Wyndham Lewis’s Vorticist magazine, Blast.

He responded far more than his siblings to his father’s influence and to what had been created at Renishaw. This was where he learned that the art of past ages is always worth re-examining. When he grew up, he was one of the first to sing the praises of Francesco Solimena and, with Osbert, founded a Magnasco Society. Pictures by these two Baroque masters hanging on the walls at home must have been the earliest examples of their work he ever saw, since even in Italy few galleries would have bothered to display them – they were considered vulgar beyond words.

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