Henry Hoare II (1705–1785), known as Henry the Magnificent, was an English banker and garden owner-designer.
Henry Hoare II (1705–1785), known as Henry the Magnificent, was an English banker and garden owner-designer.
Henry's grandfather, Richard Hoare, was a goldsmith-banker and Lord Mayor of London. His father, Henry Hoare I, bought the ancestral estate of the Stourtons and built a Palladian villa designed by Colen Campbell. [1] When his father died, Henry Hoare II was 20 years old. He was educated at Westminster School. [2]
Henry dominated the Hoare family through his wealth and personal charisma. [2] He was a partner for nearly 60 years in Hoare's Bank. His nickname, "Henry The Magnificent", derived in part from his influence as a great patron of the Arts, but more particularly because he laid out the gardens at Stourhead in Wiltshire, an estate bought by his father. [3] In the thirty years after his mother died in 1741, he worked on the gardens at Stourhead, planning and planting what became a "masterpiece" of European garden design. In the 'school' of Poussin, it was said to be "more beautiful than any landscape put on canvas". [1] The gardens were admired as a showplace [4] and Capability Brown, the renowned landscape gardener, was well known to Henry. [5] In 1734 he was elected Member of Parliament for Salisbury. [6]
He died in 1785 leaving Stourhead to the son of his daughter Ann (1734–1759), Richard Colt Hoare. [7] His younger daughter, Susanna, became Countess of Ailesbury. [8]
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