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| | Dining Room from Lansdowne House [London, England] (32.12) | Object Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Lansdowne House, designed by Robert Adam and situated at the southwest corner of Berkeley Square, London, was begun for Prime Minister John Stuart, third earl of Bute, who sold it, unfinished, about 1765 to William Petty-Fitzmaurice (17371805), earl of Shelburne, later first marquess of Lansdowne and a leading Whig statesman of the period. |
 | | The house was completed from Adam's designs for Lord Shelburne in 1768 and was a meeting place for Whig social and political circles in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
 | | The central block of the house still stands at the corner of Fitzmaurice Place and Lansdowne Row, and was converted into a club in 1930, when the two wings were demolished. |
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