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Chiswick House is a Neo-Palladian style villa in the Chiswick district of London, England. A "glorious" [ 1 ] example of Neo-Palladian architecture in west London , the house was designed and built by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694–1753), and completed in 1729.
Chiswick House is an example of English Palladian Architecture in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow in England. Arguably the finest remaining example of Neo-Palladian architecture in London, the house was designed by Lord Burlington, and built between 1727 and 1729. [1]
Portrait of Richard Boyle as a boy, with his sister, Lady Jane Boyle, c. 1700. Lord Burlington was born in Yorkshire into a wealthy Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, the only son of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington and his wife, Juliana Boyle (née Noel; 1672–1750).
William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century.He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, but his real talent was for design in various media.
A particularly notable and influential example is Chiswick House (1729) by Richard Boyle: a self-taught amateur who built the house for himself. A faithful attempt at recreating an Italian Palladian villa , the house is square, symmetrical in plan with a central dome and a Corinthian portico on one side.
At the forefront of the new school of design was the "architect earl", Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, according to Dan Cruikshank the "man responsible for this curious elevation of Palladianism to the rank of a quasi-religion". [74] [75] [n 16] In 1729 he and Kent designed Chiswick House.
The front of Chiswick House at its present elevation Chiswick House is a neo- Palladian , neoclassical villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick , in the London Borough of Hounslow . It was inherited by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (1694-1753) and used as a summer retreat to get away from London.
Chiswick House. Soon after their marriage, Boyle began modernising Chiswick House and its grounds. [23]: 70 They also lived at Londesborough, East Riding of Yorkshire and in London at Burlington House. [6] Boyle had three daughters: Dorothy (1724–1742) Julianna (1727–1730) Charlotte (1731–1754). [3]: 77 [6]