 It was later inherited by marriage by the Howard family and housed the "Arundel Marbles", the famous sculpture collection of Thomas Howard, 2nd/21st Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, 1st Earl of Norfolk (1585–1646), most of which is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, although a 2nd-century AD relief from Ephesus kept at the house may be seen in the 17th century gallery at the Museum of London.Arundel House also hosted his protégé the artist and topographer Wenceslaus Hollar.The Royal Society held its meetings here for a few years in the late 1660s.