“I think it’s really wrong to interfere too much with a commission. If you ask an artist to make something, you don’t then tell them how to do it,” said the Duke of Devonshire in a Sotheby’s video covering the collection of the Chatsworth House. The video touches upon the relationship that forms, both currently and historically, when the Duke of Devonshire commissions an artwork for the collection. The focus compares two important commissions for the house, Jacob Van der Beugel’s 2014 “DNA Wall” and Antonio Canova’s “Sleeping Endymion” for the Sixth Duke of Devonshire. For more information, www.sothebys.com/Chatsworth.
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