Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland

A beautifully illustrated exploration of opulent tastes and the power of patronage in 18th-century Britain

The central decades of the eighteenth century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period’s most important campaigns of patronage and collecting was that of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland: Sir Hugh Smithson (1712–86) and Lady Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716–76). This book examines four houses they refurbished in eclectic architectura...