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ARTWORKS. Major General Sir Harold Wernher (b.1926), Bt, GVCD, Chairman of Electrolux Ltd. Derek Chittock (1922–1986) Wardown Park Museum, Luton Culture. © the artist's estate. Photo credit: Luton Culture. This painting hung in the board room of the Electrolux headquarters in Luton.
Major-General Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Baronet, GCVO, TD (16 January 1893 – 30 June 1973) was a British military officer and diamond magnate.
The Faberge Collection came to Luton Hoo with the marriage of Harold Wernher to Countess Anastasia (Zia) de Torby – Harold was the son of Julius Wernher who formed the Wernher Collection and purchased Luton Hoo in 1903 – the quite large collection comprised of both useful items and ornaments.
Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt., G.C.V.O. (1893-1973), Bath House, London, and from 1948, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, in the Chapel, and by descent. Literature 1913 Bath House Inventory, p. 66, no. 350, in the Red Room, 'called Filippino Lippi'.
Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Bt (1893-1973), Major-General and President of Electrolux Ltd. Sitter in 18 portraits. Artist back to top Godfrey Argent (1937-2006), Photographer.
From Tirpitz the pig, the mascot of HMS Glasgow, Warrior the horse, and Rip the a stray dog, to Gustav, one of the RAF's messenger pigeons, and Wojtek the 'Soldier Bear', meet 9 famous animals from the First and Second World Wars.
Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Bt (1893-1973), Major-General and President of Electrolux Ltd. Sitter in 18 portraits.
