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Article: Soane and the Grenvilles: Peter Inskip traces the story of Sir John Soane's work at Stowe, Buckingham House, Brasenose College, and Wotton House.(architects,works)(Grenvilles)
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- April 1, 2004
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The employment of architects by the Temple and Grenville families of Stowe is characterised by three different periods of patronage. In the first hall of the eighteenth century, under Sir Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham (1675-1749), Stowe became an architectural treasury of the work of the best architects available: Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), James Gibbs (1682-1754), William Kent (1685-1748) and Lancelot Brown (1716-1783). The second, related to the time of Lord Cobham's nephew, Richard Grenville, 2nd Earl Temple (1711-1779), was a period of amateur enthusiasm, supported by professional architects who included exotic figures from Italy and France: Giambattista Borra ...
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