Daughters of the 3rd Earl of Bute Johann Zoffany 1763-4 © Tate UK
Their botanist father had only just acquired his estate at Luton Park (having resigned as Prime Minister), and Robert Adam had not yet begun work on the house. Here the girls are playing with their pet squirrels in the park; later they could have enjoyed the famous Walled Garden, designed by Capability Brown. Bute had been tutor to the future George III, and would have been very familiar with the Royal Gardens at Kew.
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