Following the marriage of George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV, to Princess Caroline of Brunswick in 1795, the Marine Pavilion at Brighton was increasingly decorated in the Chinese manner. When the Prince acquired an adjoining building, which had belonged to Louis Weltje (d. 1800), his architect Henry Holland provided designs in his Chinese manner, which were executed by Messrs. John Crace (d. 1819) and his son Frederick (d. 1859), much of it with bamboo railing, tablets with Chinese inscriptions and rectangular panels with pans coupés corners. These beechwood chairs relate very closely to those supplied by Messrs. Elward, Marsh & Tatham of Mount Street, who charged #100.16.0. in 1801 for thirty-six 'carved bamboo japanned chairs' (see: Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 278). One of a pair of chairs of this pattern at Brighton Royal Pavilion is illustrated, M. Jourdain and R. Fastnedge, Regency Furniture, London, rev. ed. 1965, pl. 1. They bear a 'W' brand and George IV's