Warren Stephens, the newly appointed US ambassador to the UK, who has taken up residence at the palatial Winfield House in Regent’s Park, London, has a penchant for blue-chip art. Stephens is the chief executive of his family’s financial services firm, Stephens Inc, and is worth $3.5bn, according to Forbes.
Stephens’s own top-notch art collection is dotted around the ambassadorial house, with key works on show by Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. Above the drawing room mantelpiece is Claude Monet’s Effet de soleil couchant sur la Seine à Port-Villez (1883), reports The Times, while a Pissarro painting depicting Kensington Gardens has just been hung in the mansion. “It’s rather appropriate, don’t you think?” remarked Stephens’s wife, Harriet.
Stephens was the top individual donor to President Donald Trump’s inauguration fundraising committee, according to The Washington Post.