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ARTICLES RELATED TO Matthew Brettingham - Early life | | | |  Matthew Brettingham - Early life: Encyclopedia II - Matthew Brettingham - ArchitectThere is no evidence that Brettingham ever formally studied architecture or even travelled abroad. The Dictionary of National Biography reports him as having made two study trips abroad. However, this assumption was made on the strength of an anonymous book now ascribed to someone else, and the other because of confusion with his son Matthew Brettingham the Younger.
In 1734, Brettingham had his first great opportunity, when two of the foremost Palladian architects of the day, William Kent and Lord Burlington, were collaborative ...
See also:Matthew Brettingham, Matthew Brettingham - Early life, Matthew Brettingham - Local contractor, Matthew Brettingham - Architect, Matthew Brettingham - The London House, Matthew Brettingham - Kedleston Hall, Matthew Brettingham - Conclusion Read more here: » Matthew Brettingham: Encyclopedia II - Matthew Brettingham - Architect |
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| | | | Matthew Brettingham - Early life: Encyclopedia II - Matthew Brettingham - Kedleston Hall Sir Nathaniel Curzon, later 1st Baron Scarsdale, having refused a prospective design by James Gibbs, one of the leading architects of the day, commissioned Brettingham in 1759 to design a great country house to equal Holkham Hall. (Lord Leicester, Holkham's owner and Brettingham's employer, was a particular hero of Curzon.) Curzon was a Tory from a very old Derbyshire family, and he wished to create a showpiece to rival the nearby Chatsworth House owned by the Whig Duke of Devonshire, whose family were relative newcomers in the county, havin ...
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| | | | Matthew Brettingham - Early life: Encyclopedia II - Matthew Brettingham - The London House From 1747, Brettingham had begun to operate from London as well as Norwich. This period marks a turning point in his career, as he was now no longer designing country houses and farm buildings just for the local aristocrats and the Norfolk gentry, but for the greater aristocracy based in London.
One of Brettingham's greatest solo commissions came when he was asked to designed a town house for the Duke of Norfolk in St. James's Square, London. Completed in 1756, this mansion was from the exterior similar to many of the great palazzi in ...
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