article_snippet: As well as paintings and portraits, The collection also includes 17th-century Italian furniture and Roman antiquities.
article_snippet: to £600,000 also includes a pair of extremely rare Italian pietre dure inlaid cabinets made in Rome in the 17th Century, which are expected to sell for up to £1million.
article_snippet: A pair of Italian pietrre dure and ormolu-mounted cabinets from the early 17th Century (left) are to sell for up to £1million .
article_snippet: the grand house magnificent art collection includes ancient sculptures, Old Masters and works by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough.
article_snippet: To this end, we have selected for sale at Sotheby's a small number of works which, while of great intrinsic interest, have been carefully chosen so as not to detract from the overall integrity of the collection.'
article_snippet: Henry Wyndham, chairman of Sotheby's's Europe said the collection 'ranks among the finest private art collections in the world'.
article_snippet: Henry Wyndham, chairman of Sotheby's Europe said: 'The collections at Castle Howard chart two millennia of history and 300 years of collecting. '
article_snippet: The carefully selected group of works to be auctioned this summer is testament to the taste of a series of enlightened art patrons, starting with the visionary 3rd Earl of Carlisle, and continuing through the visionary 3rd Earl of Carlisle Romanophile son, Henry, collector of antiquities and Venetian vedute, to the visionary 3rd Earl of Carlisle diplomat grandson Frederick, 5th Earl of Carlisle, who is thought by many to have been the most refined English collector of the period around 1800.'