Click and drag the cursor on the tour window to manually navigate the room and identify select highlights. Click on highlights to view additional information. Use the tools at the window base to zoom in and out and show all the highlights. The main theme of the Master Bedroom is genre paintings. These depict scenes of everyday life in the Victorian era and explore the relationships between men and women, husband and wife, master and servant and the interaction of children. These paintings all tell a story. Sometimes a pair of paintings was used as a device to extend the narrative such as John Watson Nicol's Cause and Effect seen to the left of the fireplace in which an errant school boy suffers from gorging on apples or to the right, William Powell Frith's Hope and Fear in which an anxious girl waits with her mother whilst her beloved seeks her hand in marriage from a stern father. Marriage was a popular subject with Victorian genre painters and they often contained many ambiguities. William Powell Frith's 'For Better, For Worse' above the fireplace, shows the newly-weds departing on their honeymoon but the groom appears to be looking at a former admirer on the balcony whilst the beggars in the foreground are a telling reminder of the inequities of Victorian society. Edmund Blair Leighton's "Till Death Us Do Part" to the left of the door, shows a chastened bride accompanying her elderly husband down the aisle after what has clearly been a marriage of convenience whilst a young man looks at her yearningly from the pews.