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Article: Picture galleries outside London: Brighton Art Gallery and Museum.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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The Dome at Brighton was built between 1804 and 1808 by William Porden in a fanciful 'Asiatick' style, as a Riding School with ancillary stables, at the behest of the future King George IV. Soon afterwards John Nash converted the Royal Pavilion itself into a less sombre (indeed, elfin and delectable) variation on Porden's heavy edifice; although the landscape gardener Humphrey Repton, who helped to design the Pavilion, praised Porden's pioneering work as 'a stupendous and magnificent building'. George IV tired of his new abode, but his successor, William IV, enjoyed its proximity to the sea and the shaky Chain Pier on which the 'Sailor King' felt thoroughly at home.
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