Cherubs and Chintz: among the triumphs of the 1830s restoration of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, was the sitting room of the Countess de Grey. Today, her remarkable interior scheme can be pieced together through scraps of evidence, revealing the tastes of the house's former owners

Thomas Philip, 2nd Earl de Grey (1781-1859), inherited Wrest Park in Bedfordshire from his maternal aunt in 1833. Almost immediately, in 1834, he embarked on an ambitious building project, remodelling [...]