Article: Wedgwood, Boulton, and Henry Hoare II: patronage of the antique taste at Stourhead.

Article: Bella italia ; In the mid-18th century, wars were raging in many ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  November 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... victory over the Duke of Cumberland, Henry Hoare was directing his team of architects ... National Trust property is a real treat. Henry Hoare, a director of Hoare's Bank in London ... in 1753. It was the direct result of Henry Hoare's visits to Italy, and his determination ...

Article: Travel UK Activities: Et in arcadia ego, just a few miles off the ...
The Independent - London;  December 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... gardens are the creation of a banking family, the Hoares. Henry Hoare I and his son Henry II were responsible for building the house ... left, which joins the park again at an obelisk commemorating Henry Hoare I. Looking east you will see the west facade of Stourhead ...

Article: Walking: Following a route set in stone
The Independent - London;  June 8, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... while fighting the Danes in 879AD. The architect Henry Flitcroft, and Henry Hoare I, a London banker and son of the Lord Mayor, built Stourhead House in the 1720s. Henry Hoare II created the landscaped garden, and succeeding generations have ...

Article: Great escapes: Catch the early show ANNA PAVORD'S GREAT GARDENS: ...
The Independent on Sunday;  March 2, 2003 ;     420 words ... ... looking lake," says Anna Pavord. "When that was finished, Henry Hoare II commissioned a series of buildings to set round its perimeter ... cave. [It was] given to the National Trust in 1946 by Sir Henry Hoare, who had lost both his sons and heirs in the Second World ...

Article: History grows here: prune with care
The Independent - London;  January 21, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Royal in north Yorkshire, acquired by the Trust in 1983, and Henry Hoare's 18th-century masterpiece, Stourhead in Wiltshire ... She criticised the rhododendrons planted by its owner, Sir Henry Hoare, in the rhododendron boom years of the Twenties and Thirties ...

Article: Arts Minister places temporary export bar on outstanding pair of ...
M2 Presswire;  October 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... King of Poland, in June or July 1772. However, the King was slow to pay and in March 1773 Vernet wrote to the banker Henry Hoare, agreeing to reserve both paintings for Hoare's client, Lord Clive of India. The pictures reached London in May 1773 ...

Article: James 'Athenian' Stuart's portrait of James Dawkins.
British Art Journal;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... and evidence from the 18th century as to his ability is mixed. On the one hand was Thomas Jenkins's 1761 observation to Henry Hoare that Stuart was 'a man that has not succeeded in his first attempts as a Painter and not being able to get up at others may ...