Painswick House
Painswick House is a grade I listed house in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England.[1]
The house was built in the 1730s by Charles Hyett to escape the smog of Gloucester and was originally known as "Buenos Ayres" but Hyett died in 1738 not long after moving there.[2]
The grounds include the Painswick Rococo Garden, as it is now known, which was laid out by Charles's oldest son Benjamin Hyett II (1708-62) (brother of Nicholas Hyett, constable and keeper of the Castle of Gloucester). The garden was painted by Thomas Robins the Elder in 1748.[3][4]
References
- ^ Historic England. "Painswick House (1153435)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ "Painswick Rococo Garden in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, nr Cheltenham, Stroud and Gloucester". rococogarden.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- ^ "Gardening: Portrait of a paradise regained". The Independent. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- ^ "Gardening: Scene by the limner of Bath: In the first of an occasional series on gardens in paintings, Anna Pavord looks at Thomas Robins's 18th-century study of Painswick in Gloucestershire". The Independent. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
External links
Media related to Hyett family at Wikimedia Commons- Media related to Painswick House at Wikimedia Commons
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