1653-1738
Henry Wise was one of the principal gardeners of Hampton Court Palace. He also worked for James Brydges, the Duke of Chandos, at the elaborate and expensive gardens at Cannon, Middlesex, which Pope's contemporaries believed to be Timon's Villa in the "Epistle to Burlington." The style of these gardens is "autocratic": palatial grandeur radiates outward from the patriarchal seat, its rigid order dominating nature and bending it to man's will.
The Great expense of maintaining Hampton Court's extensive gardens eventually led Queen Anne to order Wise to reduce the cost of upkeep by two thirds. Thus in 1704 the box parterres do broderie were replaced by open lawn, in a step towards the freer landscape style that would dominate much of the rest of the century.
In recent years, formal gardens have been restored at Hampton Court.
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