The London house overlooking Green Park of the poet Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) was much visited by people who recorded their impressions and many details are known about the rooms, their decorations and their contents. The house, which Rogers acquired in 1802, was remodelled by James Wyatt. For the inside Rogers was influenced by Thomas Hope's pioneering book of Household Furniture and Interior Decoration. Flaxman supplied designs for the Drawing Room and Thomas Stothard designed and painted a display cabinet for antiquities. A distinguished collector and connoisseur Rogers, who had come into a substantial fortune on the death of his father in 1793, used his travels as a means of educating his taste. In this view of the Dining Room can be recognised Velasquez' Don Balthasar Carlos can be seen, with to the left Tintoretto's Miracle of St Mark to the left, and to the right a seventeenth century landscape. On the extreme left is Laughing Girl by Reynolds. The rich red curtains and tablecloths introduce a cosy domestic note into the grand ambience of serious art collecting