Grinling Gibbons by Paul Rabbitts

Author:Paul Rabbitts
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784424053
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

The West Closet, north elevation. Detail of the carved oak overmantel. The appearance of musical instruments in the carvings may indicate that the closet was originally intended to be a private music room.

The early stages at Hampton Court included the construction of the Water Gallery, with work by Emmett, to house the queen’s collection of paintings and porcelain, which was later demolished. No facilities had existed at Hampton Court for tradesmen but this was soon to change with a large open but temporary workshop set up for the use of the woodcarvers. Here Gibbons created the enriched dado, dado-railing and architraves, the panels above the doors for Queen Mary’s Closet and the King’s Writing Closet, the wooden centrepiece carved with various devices and the Star and Garter, and the initial ‘W’ for the Guard Room, also the heads of the cherubs which were to be set in the Tudor roof of the Chapel. Gibbons was in the ascendancy and in 1693 he was granted the recognition he deserved in the form of a warrant as Master Carver. On 8 November 1693, it was ordered that Gibbons was to be paid ‘the usual Fee or Sallary … payable from the Feast of St Michael th’ Archangel last past’.

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