Chinese Drawing Room at Temple Newsam by Aldous Bertram

AVAILABLE TO SHIP AFTER NOVEMBER 28, 2025

Chinese Drawing Room at Temple Newsam, 2024
Watercolor on Paper

Leeds, England
Featuring an 1807 Chinese wallpaper notable for its later additions of birds cut from Audubon’s Birds of America

Aldous Bertram is a Charleston-based interior designer and artist known for his richly layered, historically informed watercolors. Raised in a Queen Anne country house in the village of Linton, Cambridgeshire, and later educated at Cambridge—where he earned a PhD in 18th-century gardens and architecture—he brings a rare depth of architectural literacy to his work. This exclusive collection for Wentworth translates some of Europe’s most remarkable interiors into luminous, meticulously detailed studies, capturing the neoclassical whimsy, saturated color, and collected spirit that define his artistic hand.

Chinese Drawing Room at Temple Newsam depicts one of Britain’s most evocative historic interiors, distinguished by its rare early-19th-century Chinese wallpaper. Beloved for its extraordinary layering, the room features delicate botanical scenes embellished in the 19th century with hand-cut Audubon birds—an unusual marriage of Eastern ornament and American natural history. Bertram’s watercolor captures this interplay of cultures and centuries, highlighting the room’s serenity, charm, and remarkable narrative detail.

Dimensions: 16 ½" W x 19 ½" H (with frame)
Approx. 9" W x 11 ½" H (unframed)
Exclusive to Wentworth