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...He was soon presented to King George III at Kew Palace, after being fitted for a velvet coat, white waistcoat and satin breeches....
...Stolid George III is an under-recognised patron....
...It was in part due to his passion and fervour and others like him, such as Augustus Pugin who, together with Charles Barry, rebuilt the Houses of Parliament after they were burnt down in 1834, and George...
...It was a vision of comprehensive impoverishment that Augustus evidently found irresistible....
...Thus, his company, which keeps 4,000 hand-carved blocks, including designs by world greats such as Augustus Pugin, William Morris, Charles Voysey and Walter Crane, still produces wallpapers for royal residences...
...(The count had been the powerful, art-greedy prime minister to Saxony’s art collecting Augustus III.) In 1779, came 198 works from the collection of England’s prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole....
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