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Wilton House: The Wiltshire masterpiece of an earl-turned-enthusiastic amateur architect


May 23, 2021
The Double Cube Room. The 9th Earl placed the painting by van Dyck of Charles I’s children
Credit: Will Pryce/Country Life
In the early 18th century, Wilton House in Wiltshire underwent improvement at the hands of the 9th Earl of Pembroke, an enthusiastic amateur architect. For a new book on Wilton  to this day the seat of the Earl of Pembroke John Martin Robinson assesses his remarkable legacy. Photography by Will Pryce and Simon Upton.
The splendours of Wilton today owe a great deal to the early 18th century and the figure of Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke, (1689–1750), known as the ‘Architect’ Earl. His often-overlooked contribution to this magnificent house in origin a great Benedictine convent that was suppressed at the Reformation and repeatedly remodelled thereafter was described by Horace Walpole: ‘The towers, the chambers, the scenes which Holbein, Jones and Vandyke had decorated, and which Earl Thomas had enriched w ....

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