reviews_and_ramblings | Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (April 25, 1694

In 1711 George Frederick Handel’s opera “Rinaldo” was a hit, and the next year he moved in with Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. The eighteen-year-old Burlington held court at Burlington House in Piccadilly and at his country estate, Chiswick House. Here over the years he gathered a coterie of artists including the poets Pope and Gay and the architect William Kent, also fresh from Rome and eager to spread Palladio over the English countryside. The atmosphere of this “verdant and artistic hothouse,” Ellen Harris reports in her wonderful book on Handel’s cantatas, breathed a “luxurious and indolent sensuality” and a “distinct homoerotic undertone.”

Timeline & Places:

• April 25, 1694: born.

• 1704 to 1729: lived at Burlington House, Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 0BD, Regno Unito

• 1729 to 1753: lived at Chiswick House, Burlington Lane, London, Chiswick W4 2RP, Regno Unito

• December 15, 1753: died. Buried at All Saints, Londesborough, York YO43 3LQ, Regno Unito

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Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington (April 25, 1694 – December 15, 1753)