Portrait of David Harewood OBE

David Harewood MBE is a British actor, writer and activist. He is the current President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

David Harewood’s ancestors were enslaved by the Lascelles family in the early nineteenth century.

Harewood’s portrait is the second in the ‘Missing Portrait’ series. It was taken by the Leeds-based photographer Ashley Karrell in the Main Library at Harewood House in 2023.

Image © Ashley Karrell.

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Simple floor plan of the west rooms and corridors of the State Floor

Cinnamon Drawing Room

Cinnamon Drawing Room

This room is called the Cinnamon Drawing Room because of the colour of the damask on its walls.

Cinnamon Drawing Room

Explore our Collections

Harewood House Trust, boasts an incredible collection of furniture, ceramics, and paintings, as well as gardens and grounds brimming with plants from around the world.

A grand long Gallery displaying an array of paintings by masters of the Italian Renaissance. Thomas Chippendale gilded mirrors cover one wall, reflecting sunlight towards the paintins. Golden lamps light up the Robert Adam ceilings which are decorated with scenes of greek mythology.

Italian Old Masters

Harewood House is home to one of the greatest 20th-century collections of Italian Renaissance paintings in Britain.

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An elaborate white and blue painted chair next to a carved mahogany side table upon which stands a bronze lamp.

British Furniture

Thomas Chippendale is Britain’s most famous eighteenth-century furniture maker. Located just a few miles away from his birthplace in Otley, Harewood House contains one of the largest collections of his furniture anywhere in the world, and is today renowned as his most magnificent commission.

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Sino-Himalayan Plants

Harewood is renowned for its beautiful gardens and inspiring planting schemes. The Himalayan Garden contains many rare and unusual plants, many of which were introduced by intrepid plant explorers, and include Blue Poppies, Cobra Lilies, Primulas and Orchids.

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