Marble Hill House

Marble Hill House is a Palladian villa constructed among 1724 and 1729 in Twickenham inside the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It become the house of Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, who lived there until her death. The compact design quickly have become famous and provided a standard version for the Georgian English villa and for plantation homes within the American colonies.

Marble Hill House became constructed in 1724–1729 with the aid of, the mistress of King George II, to the designs of the architect Roger Morris in collaboration with Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, one of the "architect earls". Pembroke, then Lord Herbert, based the layout of Marble Hill to a huge diploma on Andrea Palladio's 1553 Villa Cornaro in Piombino Dese, Italy, and for that reason included a cubic saloon on the primary floor or piano nobile.

Villa Cornaro additionally served as a model for plantation homes within the American colonies, examples being Drayton Hall in Charleston, South Carolina, and Thomas Jefferson's preliminary model of Monticello. It turned into in different respects an model of a extra expansive design by way of Colen Campbell. It is about in 66 acres of parkland referred to as Marble Hill Park. The Great Room contains lavishly gilded ornament and 5 capricci art work via Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Marble Hill House additionally includes a loaned collection of early Georgian furniture and art work as well as the Chinoiserie series of the Lazenby Bequest.