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Wilton House, the ancestral home of the Pembroke family, with its splendid landscape park was often visited by travellers from the continent. It is highly probable that they included the Russian architect Vasily Neyelov who at Catherine II's insistence spent six months in England with the aim of studying the fundamentals of park construction. After his return home in the summer of 1771 Neyelov constructed a host of magnificent park pavilions. One of them was the celebrated Marble or Palladian Bridge. Although the architect was familiar with this design by the great Italian architect Andrea Palladio before his trip to England, it cannot be ruled out that it was the real-life implementations - the Palladian Bridge at Wilton (1737) and a similar structure at Stowe - that gave the necessary impetus to his own creative ambitions. The landscape painted on the sauce vessel was based on Luke Sullivan's engraving "A View of Wilton in Wiltshire the Seat of the Rt. Hon'ble the Earl of Pembroke". |
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