276 BRETTINGHAM^S WORK AT HOLKHAM 



gentleman of sixty-five. The result was a foregone conclusion, 

 and the older man died of his wound. 1 



Lady Leicester carried on the works at Holkham with the 

 help of Matthew Brettingham, of Norwich, who had been a pupil 

 of Kent's and had acted as his assistant and clerk of the works. 

 After the work was ended he published the plans and elevations 

 of the house in a book dedicated to Lady Leicester, and claimed 

 the whole credit of the design. But it belongs in reality to Kent, 

 and Holkham is an interesting example of the work of one man, 

 alike as to the house, its decoration and its furniture.' 2 



FIG. 191. Kedleston, Derbyshire, 1761. Plan of the Principal Floor. 



Although Holkham is his most notable achievement unless 

 we except the Horse Guards, which has some resemblance to it 

 in general treatment (Fig. 190) Kent was fully employed during 

 his thirty years of active work. He designed many houses and 

 many gardens. One of the most pleasing of the buildings at 

 Stowe, the Temple of Ancient Virtues, was his. His help was 

 obtained in directions other than architecture, and Walpole tells 



1 "Memoirs of a Royal Chaplain," by Albert Hartsborne, pp. 318-320. 



2 See an article on Holkham by M. Jourdain, " Interiors of English 

 Mansions," in the Art Journal of July 1911, and Lenygon's " Decoration in 

 England" and "Furniture in England" (1660-1790), 2 vols. (Batsford). 



