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Palaces

Kensington Palace with the statue of William III. He and Mary II bought it from the Earl of Nottingham and used Wren to turn it into a palace. George employed William Kent to improve and decorate the royal apartments from 1722 onwards. He also added a new wing for his mistress

C18th view of Kensington Palace

Kent’s Cupola Room 1722-5 painted by Richard Cattermole in 1817

The Cupola Room today

Kent’s King’s Great Drawing Room painted by Charles Wild in 1816

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Ceiling of the King’s Great Drawing Room

William Kent by William Aikman c 1723-5 NPG

William Kent by Benedetto Luti 1718

Kent’s Great Staircase 1725-7 painted by Charles Wild in 1819

Great Staircase Today showing Tijou’s ironwork

Mahomet and Mustafa the king’s Turkish servants and Ulric his Polish page

Kent’s Presence Chamber painted by James Stephanoff in 1816

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John Vanbrugh’s New Kitchen 1717 painted by James Stephanoff in 1819

Candlesticks 1727 by John Gumley for KensingtonSide table by John Gumley 1727 for Kensington

Pier Table by James Moore 1720 for Kensington

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James Moore’s Pier Table 1723-4 at Kensington

James Moore’s Pier Table 1723 at Kensington

Michael Rysbrack’s Roman Marriage of 1722 for Kensington

Henry Wise designer of the gardens at Kensington Palace originally for Queen Anne but continued to 1728, painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller c 1715

Kensington Gardens in 1736

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Kensington palace and gardens before Wise’s alterationsKensington Palace and Gardens by Johannes Kip in 1724 after Wise’s alterations for George

Another view of the gardens c 1730

John Rocque’s View of Kensington Palace 1739

St James’s Palace in George’s day. George used St James’s as his main residence whilst in London. After quarrelling with the Prince of Wales he expelled him and the Princess but kept their children under his control including the new born Prince George William who died aged 3 months

View of London and St James’s Park c 1727 by Johannes Kip part of panorama started in 1715

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Benjamin Pyne candlestick of 1717 for the Chapel Royal Whitehall, Royal Collection

Ewer with GR monogram from 1714 by Francis Garthorne, Royal Collection

James Fraillon 1716 inkstand, Royal Collection

Sauce boats by James Fraillon 1717-18, British Museum

Nicholas Clausen 1721 salt, Royal Collection

Henry Hulsberg’s designs for Whitehall after Inigo Jones’s for Charles I in the 1630s and 1640s published in Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus 1717. The palace was never rebuilt following the fire in 1698

View of Hampton Court painted by Jan Griffier 1710

Prince of Wales’s bedchamber later the Queen’s state bedchamber at Hampton Court painted by Richard Cattermole in c 1816

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Sir James Thornhill’s design for the ceiling of the Prince of Wales’s bedchamber at Hampton Court c 1715

Maquette of the previous sketch

Queen Anne's state bed at Hampton Court by Richard Roberts and Hamden Reeve c 1714-15 Chair for Hampton Court by Richard

Roberts 1717, Royal Collection

Stool probably by Richard Roberts for the Prince of Wales at Hampton Court, Royal Collection

Stools probably by Richard Roberts for Hampton Court 1726, Royal Collection

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Tapestries of Alexander the Great copied from originals by Charles Le Brun purchased by George for Hampton Court 1 Alexander's triumphal entry into Babylon, seated in a chariot, with a boy riding on an elephant

2 Battle with King Porus of India, in which an elephant is strangling a horse with its trunk

3 Alexander with his horse Bucephalus, taking leave of Hephaestion

4 Alexander's visit to Diogenes in his tub

5 Alexander meeting the Chaldean prophets on his way to Babylon

6 The Battle of the Granicus 7 Alexander and Hephaestion visiting the tent of the wife of Darius

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Jan Griffier the Elder A View of Windsor Castle, Royal Collection View of Windsor Castle from the North possibly by Jan Griffier I or Jan Wyck

Robert Griffier Windsor Castle from the River

Windsor Castle from the River by Peter Tillemans

The Queen's Ballroom at Windsor Castle originally commissioned by George painted by Charles Wild in 1817

Don Rodrigo Calderon on Horseback by Rubens bought for Windsor 1723 from John Law, Royal Collection

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Literature &

Entertainment

Alexander Pope by Charles Jervas c 1715 Alexander Pope by Michael Dahl 1727

An early edition (1752) of Pope’s translation of the Odyssey. Pope’s Iliad was published between 1715 and 1720 and the Odyssey followed in 1725-6

Sir Samuel Garth by Godfrey Kneller. In 1717 Garth published the translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses based on Dryden, Pope, Addison, Congreve and others. He was a fellow member of the Scriblerus Club with Pope, Gay and Swift, founded in 1714

A depiction of the story of Pygmalion from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Pygmalion adoring his statue by Jean Raoux 1717

Poems written in 1720

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Gay’s play with contributions from Pope and Dr John Arbuthnot had a record 7 sell out performances at Drury Lane and has been revived regularly in modern times

Scene from Three Hours After Marriage for Jacob Bronowski’s Ascent of Man in 1973. Dr Fossil and Plotwell discuss Alchemy and Astronomy.

Revivals of Gay’s 1717 play Three Hours After Marriage written with Pope and Dr John Arbuthnot. The play satirises the government but also scientists: Dr Fossil is a caricature of Newton

Colley Cibber, the original Plotwell Playbill for one of Cibber’s Plays in 1725

An early satirical print by William Hogarth published in 1724: A Just View of the British Stage

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Joseph Addison by Sir Godfrey Kneller Addison was an essayist, playwright, poet and politician rising to Secretary of Sate in 1717

Sir Richard Steele by Jonathan Richardson. Steele was knighted by George I in 1715 and made manager of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Addison and Steele circle of Kneller. Together they founded three periodicals including the Spectator in 1711 which was still published in George’s reign. Both were members of the Kit-Kat Club founded by Addison and Swift. They fell out over Stanhope’s Peerage Bill in 1719.

1788 edition of the Spectator reprinting Addison and Steele’s early articles

Sir Thomas Sebright, Sir John Bland and others by Benjamin Ferrers 1720. Both were MPs in George’s reign. The gathering is reminiscent of the Kit-Kat and Scriblerus Clubs, the former had Swift, Addison, Steele, Congreve, Walpole, Stanhope, Newcastle, Vanbrugh and Burlington and the latter Pope, Gay, Harley and St John as members.

Hogarth c 1720 “A game of draughts interrupted.” The figures have been identified as Pope and Arbuthnot on the far side of the table with Count Viviani entering on the right, at Daniel Button's Coffee House in Russell Street Covent Garden

Voltaire by Nicolas de Largillière c 1724. Voltaire took refuge in England 1726-9 and befriended Pope, Swift, Gay, Mary Wortley Montagu and the Duchess of Marlborough. He was in London at the time of Newton’s funeral and met his physician who described the great man’s last hours.

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Daniel Defoe made his name as a pamphleteer, worked as a spy for Robert Harley, wrote a periodical The Review and became a novelist with Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders (1722) his most successful

Jonathan Swift was a pamphleteer and also worked for Robert Harley but made an enemy of Queen Anne so became Dean of St Patrick’s Dublin which was outside her gift. He is best remembered for his novel Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

The inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk was abandoned on a desert island from 1704 to 1709

Robinson Crusoe published 1719

Crusoe’s Island

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe published 1722

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Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year published 1722

Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain went through several editions after it was published in 1726

Swift published Gulliver’s Travels as if they were Gulliver’s reminiscences of real travels in 1726

Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms by Sawrey Gilpin 1769 Gulliver taking his final leave of the land of the Houyhnhnms by Sawrey Gilpin 1769

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Gulliver in Brobdingnag by Richard Redgrave c 1840, V&A

Jehan-Georges Vibert Gulliver and the Lilliputians c 1880

Dinner party by Marcellus Laroon the Younger c 1719-25 presented to George I in 1725

Bartholomew Fair, original design for a fan of 1720s with booths including the peep-show of

'The Siege of Gibraltar', Lee and Harper's presentation of 'Judith and Holofernes', Faux's

'Dexterity of Hand' and his 'Famous posture master’.

St Bartholomew's Fair in 1721 reproduced by John Frederick Setchel, bookseller and stationer of King Street Covent Garden in 1824 with description

Southwark Fair 1731 by William Hogarth

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Frost Fair on Thames in the winter of 1715-16 Frost Fair of 1716, British Museum

Jan Griffier Entertainments in Greenwich Park Covent Garden in reign of George I by Jacob van Aken in England from 1720

Van Aken The Music Party 1725 Saying Grace by Van Aken 1720

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Peter Tillemans Foxhunting 1720The King’s Plate at Newmarket by Peter Tillemans 1725

Newmarket by Peter Tillemans

John Wootton The Duke of Hamilton’s Grey Racehorse, 'Victorious,’ at Newmarket 1725

Painting Sculpture

& Architecture

James Thornhill self portrait

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Britannia receiving homage from the four continents for the Royal State coach by Thornhill c 1718

Dome of St Paul’s Cathedral. Thornhill won the competition for its decoration in 1715 and completed it by 1720

Sir Christopher Wren by Verrio, Kneller and Thornhill c 1706-24. Wren retired as surveyor of the Royal Hospital Greenwich in 1716

Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723 Sir Godfrey Kneller 1711

Nicholas Hawksmoor based on bust by Sir Henry Cheere of 1736 NPG. One of Wren’s proteges he designed several London churches and part of Blenheim Palace in George’s reign

St Mary, Woolnoth by Hawksmoor 1716-23 St Anne, Limehouse by Hawksmoor 1714-30

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St George In The East by Hawksmoor 1714-29

Christ Church, Spitalfields by Hawksmoor 1714-29

St George’s Bloomsbury by Hawksmoor 1716-1731 George I as St George at St George's Bloomsbury

All Souls College Oxford by Hawksmoor 1716-34

Blenheim Palace library by Hawksmoor 1722-5

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Woodstock Gate, Blenheim Palace by Hawksmoor 1723

Sir John Vanbrugh by Sir Godfrey Kneller 1704-10. As well as being a successful playwright Vanbrugh was one of Wren’s pupils and succeeded him as surveyor of the Royal Hospital Greenwich. He also was mainly responsible for Blenheim Palace whose construction resumed when George succeeded and was largely complete by 1716

As surveyor at Greenwich Vanbrugh built himself a Mediaeval Castle to live in and spent the last years of his life here.

Seaton Delaval Hall was Vanbrugh’s last commission for a stately home in 1718

Seaton Delaval Hall central block interior Blenheim Palace. Unfinished at the fall of Marlborough in 1711, work resumed under George and was completed by 1716. The Duke and Duchess moved in and died here in 1722 and 1744

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Blenheim Palace Grand Bridge by Vanbrugh 1722-4Blenheim Ceiling Saloon by Louis Laguerre c 1720. Laguerre was born in France, came to England aged 20 and spent the last 38 years of his life here

Blenheim Palace, interior Saloon murals by Laguerre c 1720

Blenheim Palace ceiling by Thornhill 1716

James Gibbs by Andrea Soldi, National Gallery of Scotland. Gibbs was one of the leading architects of the younger generation and much influenced by Palladio

Wimpole Hall Chapel by James Gibbs with murals by Sir James Thornhill completed 1724

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St Martin in the Fields by Gibbs 1720-6

King’s College Oxford by Gibbs 1724-30

Cambridge Senate House by James Gibbs 1722-30Houghton Hall Norfolk designed for Walpole by Colen Campbell in 1722 and James Gibbs from 1725 illustration from Colen Campbell’s Vitruvius Britannicus published 1715-1725

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Wanstead House by Colen Campbell 1715-1722

Burlington House designed by Colen Campbell in 1717 photographed before the later additions

Stourhead House by Campbell 1721-1724

Mereworth Castle by Colen Campbell 1722-1725

Sir Godfrey Kneller self portrait. Kneller was born in Germany in 1646 and became court painter in England from 1680 to 1723. George made him a baronet in 1715

William Hogarth self portrait. Hogarth started his career as a printmaker and became one of the chief commentators on society. He married Thornhill’s daughter

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Hogarth’s Breaking the Legs for John Beaver’s Roman Military Punishments 1725 Hogarth’s Crucifixion for John Beaver’s Roman Military Punishments 1725

Hogarth’s Trade Card 1720 One of Hogarth’s illustrations for Samuel Butler’s Hudibras 1726

Hogarth The Committee from Hudibras 1724-6 Hogarth The Bad Taste of the Town 1724

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Jan Griffier the Elder A view of Greenwich from the River with many Boats. Griffier came to London from Holland c 1708 and died here in 1718 where his sons Jan II and Robert continued to paint. They specialised in these sort of views.

Robert Griffier (1675-1727) Panoramic View of Greenwich, the Thames, and London, from the East (One Tree Hill)

Robert Griffier Syon House

Richard Boyle 3rd E of Burlington and 4th E of Cork by Jonathan Richardson 1717-9. Politician & art patron

Burlington’s home, Chiswick House, which he designed himself, built 1722-1729

John Vanderbank Self-portrait c 1720. Vanderbank was a leading English portraitist in the reigns of George and his son

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John Vanderbank sketch for an equestrian portrait dated 1726, British Museum

Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough by John Vanderbank 1719

George I by John Vanderbank 1726

John Michael Rysbrack by John Vanderbank c 1728. Rysbrack was born in Antwerp but settled in London in 1720 remaining for the last 50 years of his life

Bust of a Man probably Pieter Tillemans by John Michael Rysbrack, 1727

Andrea Palladio by John Michael Rysbrack, c 1725, marble, Chatsworth

Bust of Inigo Jones by John Michael Rysbrack,1725

Sir Hans Sloane by John Michael Rysbrack. Sloane was physician to Queen Anne, George I and George II. He was the foremost collector of his time and left his collection to the Nation to found the British Museum

Peter Tillemans by Thomas Chambers after Hissings. Born in Flanders, Tillemans settled in England in 1708 and became one of the founders of a school of sporting art but also painted landscapes.

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The Artist’s Studio by Peter Tillemans c 1716

The Thames at Twickenham by Petr Tillemans 1725

Peter Tillemans the Battle of Belgrade 1717 Peter Tillemans Battle Scene

Peter Scheemakers by Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont. Sculptor Scheemakers settled in Great Britain in 1716 and became famous in George II’s reign

Science Medicine

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Dr Arbuthnot John by Godfrey Kneller. He acted as consultant to John Gay for Three Hours After Marriage but also wrote medial texts and commented on inoculation

Edmond Halley by Richard Phillips 1720. Halley was the second Astronomer Royal succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720. In 1716 he showed how the transit of Venus could be used to measure the distance to the Sun. Dr Arbuthnot’s analysis of Inoculation for Small Pox 1722

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Charles Jervas, after 1716

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson 1725

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her son by Jean Baptiste Vanmour 1717. Wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire she lived in Constantinople 1716-1718 where she became an enthusiast for the Turkish method of inoculation or variolation against Small Pox allowing Charles Maitland the embassy surgeon to inoculate her son in 1718, the first English person to receive it. During the 1721 outbreak after inoculating her daughter she persuaded the Princess of Wales to experiment on 7 condemned prisoners with the result that the princess inoculated two of her daughters, Amelia and Caroline in 1722.

An Account of the nature and excellent properties and vertues of the Pyrmont Water by Frederick Slare 1717 presented to George I and dedicated to Sir Isaac Newton, Royal Collection

Sir Hans Sloane, first doctor to be given an hereditary title when he was created a baronet in 1716. 1719 President of Royal College of Physicians

Sir Isaac Newton by Kneller. His dispute over the discovery of calculus prevented George from bringing Leibniz to London. Remained President of the Royal Society and Master of the Mint to the end of his life (1727)

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Hans Sloane’s model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, British Museum

The earliest mummy to enter the British Museum collection acquired in 1721 by William Letheulier on his Grand Tour and bequeathed In 1757

Hans Sloane’s model of the Church of the Nativity, British Museum

Chocolate cup frames by David Tanqueray 1718, British Museum. Tanqueray was a Huguenot silversmith who settled in London in 1706 working for David Willaume, setting up on his own in 1722. He married Willaume’s daughter Anne who continued with her own mark after his death in c 1729. Sloane invented hot chocolate made with sugar and hot milk as a medicine.

Spice Box and Nutmeg Grater by David Tanqueray 1714-5 , British Museum

Silver Gilt Salver by Pierre Platel for the Earl of Devon 1714 , British Museum. Platel was a French Huguenot who arrived in 1688, worked with his own mark from 1699 to his death in 1719 Cup and Cover by Pierre Platel 1717-18 , British Museum

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Sideboard Dish by Paul de Lamerie 1723-4 , British Museum. Lamerie has been described as the greatest silversmith working in Britain in the C18th. Born in the Netherlands to a Huguenot family he came to London in 1703 working for Pierre Platel till 1713 when he set up his own workshop. By 1717 he was called the “King’s Silversmith”.

Silver Gilt Cup by Paul de Lamerie 1723-4 , British Museum

Kettle by Jacob Margas 1715-16 , British Museum. Margas was a Huguenot silversmith apprenticed to Thomas Jenkins in 1699, freed in 1706. He was “Subordinate Goldsmith to the King” 1723-1730.

Coffee Pot by Jacob Margas 1716-17 , British Museum

Large bowl by Paul Crespin 1718-19 or 1722-23, British Museum. Crespin was a Huguenot silversmith working in London who gained his own mark in 1721

Paul Crespin c 1720 artist unknown, Victoria and Albert Museum

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Slipware dish of George I , British Museum

Aubry de la Motraye’s 'Travels through Europe, Asia, and into Parts of Africa’ published in London in 1723-4, detailing a journey (from the long title) to 'Italy, Turky, Greece, Crim and Noghaian Tartaries, Circassia, Sweden, and Lapland’. This was an early travelogue cum encyclopaedia produced by de la Motraye whose Huguenot family had settled in England when he was a boy. He spent some 26 years travelling in Europe, Asia and Africa observing events and collecting antiquities and curiosities. His book was also published in the Hague in 1727.

Frontispiece of Aubry de la Motraye’s 'Travels through Europe, Asia, and into Parts of Africa’ published in London in 1723-4

Ancient Monuments of Britain A Steam Engine for Pumping Water

King Louis XV and Queen Maria of France Charles XII of Sweden and Baron Goërtz The camp of Charles XII of Sweden, near the city of Bender 1713

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Laponia engraved by Hogarth 1723Map of Stockholm A Lapland Hut

A Native Dance by Hogarth Ancient Greek and Roman coins from the museum of Copenhague

Antiquities and coins from the area of Cimmerian Bosphorus, possibly from the ancient city of Phanagoria. Greek and Egyptian antiquities, including the Lion of Piraeus

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Ahmed III is proclaimed Sultan and prepares to gird the sword of Osman. Next to him, a religious leader.

Crown of the Greek Patriach, engraved by William Hogarth At Meydani square, Hippodrome of Constantinople, Serpent Column, Obelisk of Theodosius

Dervishes Dancing in Constantinople

A Janissary courts a young woman; he has slashed his arm as a token of his affection. A Jewish matchmaker is standing on.

A Turkish Bath

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