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Lot Essay
Buckland House in Berkshire was built for Sir Robert Throckmorton, 4th Bt. in 1757. Designed by John Wood the Younger (d.1782), its lake and grounds, including an ice-house and boathouse, were laid out by the surveyor Richard Woods (d.1793) during the 1760s. Woods also remodelled the hunging lodge as a temple-pedimented Palladian villa, to form the focal point of the deer park.
The pavilion at the east end of the unusual low wings of the house was used as a library, while that at the west end was a Chapel: the Throckmortons were a leading Catholic family. Pevsner commented that Buckland was 'the most splendid of smaller Georgian houses in the county', noting that it was also unusual for having the main rooms on the rusticated ground-floor level, rather than the floor above, where the columns of the portico began (N. Pevsner, Berkshire, Middlesex, 1966, p.105).
The magazine printer and publisher Edward Burgess Hudson (1854-1936), who owned this picture in the early twentieth century, launched Country Life magazine at the end of the nineteenth century. Hudson continued to supervise this highly successful publication until his retirement in the mid-1930s, with contributions from Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.
The pavilion at the east end of the unusual low wings of the house was used as a library, while that at the west end was a Chapel: the Throckmortons were a leading Catholic family. Pevsner commented that Buckland was 'the most splendid of smaller Georgian houses in the county', noting that it was also unusual for having the main rooms on the rusticated ground-floor level, rather than the floor above, where the columns of the portico began (N. Pevsner, Berkshire, Middlesex, 1966, p.105).
The magazine printer and publisher Edward Burgess Hudson (1854-1936), who owned this picture in the early twentieth century, launched Country Life magazine at the end of the nineteenth century. Hudson continued to supervise this highly successful publication until his retirement in the mid-1930s, with contributions from Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.