Denham Place, Buckinghamshire

unknown artist

ca. 1695

Oil on canvas

Yale Center for British Art

An aerial view depicts a large, formal garden with a red brick manor house, geometric parterres, and surrounding hills under a cloudy sky. An aerial view depicts a large, formal garden with a red brick manor house, geometric parterres, and surrounding hills under a cloudy sky. This prospect shows the estate of Sir Roger Hill, a staunch supporter of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 (in which the Catholic King James II was supplanted by his daughter Queen Mary II and her husband, his nephew the Protestant King William III of Orange). Built in the Dutch taste design by William Stanton, the estate exhibited Hill's ostentatious political allegiance to William and Mary. The emphasis on garden sculpture follows the Dutch fashions popular in England after 1688: there were at le