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    Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an English architect who rose from modest origins to...
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  • Matthew Brettingham the Younger (1725 – 18 March 1803) was a British architect. He was the eldest son of Matthew Brettingham the Elder and worked also...
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  • Brettingham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Matthew Brettingham (1699–1769), English architect Matthew Brettingham the Younger...
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    duties to the local Norfolk architect Matthew Brettingham, who was employed as the on-site clerk of works. Brettingham was already the estate architect, and...
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    Some of the houses had fine interiors by leading architects such as Matthew Brettingham, Robert Adam and John Soane. The southern side of the square was...
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    The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for...
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    Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond in 1697. A South wing was added by Matthew Brettingham and a North wing by James Wyatt. It may be that there was an intention...
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    side of Pall Mall in London, England. It was built in the 1760s by Matthew Brettingham for Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany and was originally called...
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    at the house in 1667. Major alterations were made in the 1770s by Matthew Brettingham the Younger for Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, with the rebuilding...
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    itself to large gatherings. A few years later architects such as Matthew Brettingham pioneered a more compact design, with a suite of connecting reception...
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    1748–51 by William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, to the design of Matthew Brettingham The Elder. in 1984 it was the Libyan "People's Bureau", gunshots...
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    Thomas Coke, the other "architect earl", and had for an assistant Matthew Brettingham, whose own architecture would carry Palladian ideals into the next...
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    Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (1686–1777), to the design of Matthew Brettingham (1699–1769), "the Elder". This building was demolished in 1938. The...
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    It was sold a few years later to George Proctor, who commissioned Matthew Brettingham to remodel the building. In 1744, the estate was inherited by Proctor's...
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    Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, designed by Matthew Brettingham and Robert Adam, one of the great power houses....
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    son, the second Duke, decided to re-model the house and employed Matthew Brettingham, who supervised the execution of William Kent's and Lord Burlington's...
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    In 1748 Stuart joined Revett, Gavin Hamilton and the architect Matthew Brettingham the Younger on a trip to Naples to study the ancient ruins and, from...
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    Square, Newtown Pery, Limerick, Ireland, after 1769 Kedleston Hall by Matthew Brettingham and Robert Adam, begun 1769, a large English country house One of...
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  • Robert Furze Brettingham (1750–1820) was an English architect, the nephew of Matthew Brettingham the Elder, who practised in London. Like his uncle he...
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  • Edward Lovett Pearce, Irish architect (died 1733) (probable date) – Matthew Brettingham, English architect (died 1769) 1691: February 8 – Carlo Rainaldi...
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    House Music Room, St James Square, London, dated 1756, designed by Matthew Brettingham and Giovanni Battista Borra A section of a wall from the Glass Drawing-Room...
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  • destroyed by fire. Cumberland House 1763 1908–1912 Pall Mall By Matthew Brettingham; occupied by the Board of Ordnance, later the War Office, from 1806...
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    during 1712–18. To complete the scheme it was necessary to send Matthew Brettingham the younger to Rome between 1747 and 1754 to purchase further works...
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    their first drawings for the new country house. Norfolk architect Matthew Brettingham was also influential in the design of the mansion (though he attributed...
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    designed Waverton House, where he used the style made popular by Matthew Brettingham in the late 18th century, featuring a central staircase lit from...
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    involved with was Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire where he succeeded Matthew Brettingham from 1759 to 1760 and suggested the colonnaded hall, but he was himself...
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    members included: Sir William Chambers, Thomas Sandby, Robert Adam, Matthew Brettingham the Younger, Thomas Hardwick and Robert Mylne. Members who later...
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    remodelled for the 3rd Earl of Aylesford by Matthew Brettingham from 1766, with the work continuing after Brettingham's death in 1769 under Henry Couchman. It...
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    for Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet in the 1740s by the architect Matthew Brettingham. In 1775 Harbord Harbord, 1st Baron Suffield, Member of Parliament...
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    Work on the house was done by Henry Flitcroft in c. 1735–6 and Matthew Brettingham in 1746. Haineshill (Haines Hill House), on the B3018 east of Hurst...
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