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Entre 1741 y 1780, Henry Hoare II, con la ayuda del arquitecto inglés Henry Flitcroft, creó un jardín con un diseño clásico del siglo XVIII que puede considerarse el jardín paisajístico más hermoso de Inglaterra.
Henry Flitcroft was a major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism. He came from a simple background: his father was a labourer in the gardens at Hampton Court and he began as a joiner by trade. Working as a carpenter at Burlington House, he fell from a scaffold and broke his leg. While he was recuperating, the young Lord Burlington noticed his talent with the pencil, and ...
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Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) was a protege of Lord Burlington and by 1726 was employed by the Board of Works. Flitcroft later obtained some very important commissions in the 18th century (Carlton House, St Giles in the Fields, St Olave's, the Georgian parts or Woburn Abbey and the front of Wentworth Woodhouse).
Stourhead ( / ˈstaʊərhɛd /) [1] is a 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate [2] at the source of the River Stour in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire, extending into Somerset. The estate is about 4 km ( mi) northwest of the town of Mere and includes a Grade I listed 18th-century Neo-Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, one ...
9 de dic. de 2021 · In 1744 Henry Hoare employed Henry Flitcroft to design a temple for his magnificent Palladian gardens at Stourhead: The Temple of Flora, which was built by William Privett in 1744–5. Excerpted below is an account of the temple’s history taken from Dudley Dodd’s book, Stourhead: Henry Hoare’s Paradise Revisited (2021). Purchase….
In 1741, Henry Hoare II inherited the Stourhead Estate in Wiltshire, England, from his mother. With the help of Henry Flitcroft, he almost immediately began to design and implement a garden landscape described by Horace Walpole as “one of the most picturesque scenes in the world.”
