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J. Paul Getty, who purchased the estate in 1959 for around $840,000, was then, or shortly thereafter, the world's richest private citizen. His choice of Sutton Place for his principal residence made the property well known.
5 nov 1972 · With Jean Paul Getty, Bert Koetter, Eleonore Noelle, John Paul Getty III. About the estate Sutton Place and its great importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate renaissance design elements in English architecture.
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20 dic 2023 · Sutton Place estate was once home to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. Photo: Ray Moreton/Keystone Features/Getty Images J. Paul purchased the sprawling Tudor mansion, a 72-room estate ...
Getty famously had a pay phone installed at Sutton Place, helping to seal his reputation as a miser. He placed dial locks on all the regular telephones, limiting their use to authorized staff, and the coin-box telephone was installed for others.
Billionaire industrialist J Paul Getty walking in the grounds of his Sutton Place estate near Guildford in Surrey, which he has just purchased from... Party at Sutton Place, the Surrey home of American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, 1st July 1960.
About the estate Sutton Place of Guildford in Surrey, and its great importance to art history in showing some of the earliest traces of Italianate renaissance design elements in English architecture. In modern times, the estate has had a series of wealthy owners, a trend started by J. Paul Getty.
J. Paul Getty in 1964, in the Great Hall of Sutton Place, England. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute. Photo by Yousuf Karsh, © The Estate of Yousuf Karsh. This permanent installation tells the story of J. Paul Getty, the businessman and art collector who used the bulk of his wealth to create the arts institution that bears his name.
