Descendants of the 700-year-old Estcourt family are selling paintings of their influential ancestors.
Portraits of an influential political family will be auctioned off for the first time by their descendants.
Auctioneers Chorley's said they are expecting a lot of interest in the paintings, which show members of the landowning and political family and have stories of murders and duels.The Estcourt family owned estates and land all over Gloucestershire, including at Tetbury, Long Newnton and Shipton Moyne.
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