Clearing out the top drawer
A BUILDING dating from the early 1300s and reckoned to contain 189 rooms must hold a formidable amount of clutter, so the recent sale of 416 lots of art and artefacts from Dunrobin Castle at Bonhams, Edinburgh, seemed more a modest cull than any sort of clear-out. When the 24th Countess of Sutherland died in December 2019, she left the castle and estates to her son, now premier earl in the Scottish Peerage, but any cash went to his siblings. Pre-pandemic visitor
