Women of Influence: Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
Online Lecture
THURSDAY 18TH JULY 2024 AT 6 PM
One of the wealthiest women of 18th century England, she was a collector of art, natural history, botany and shells. After the death of her husband in 1762, she tended to the estate gardens at Bulstrode Park, adding a grotto, aviary and menagerie and introducing exotic plants, supplied by important botanists of the period: Philip Miller, Head Gardener at the nearby Chelsea Physic Garden, and Daniel Solander, the botanist and plant collector who accompanied Joseph Banks, another of her circle, on the HMS Endeavor to Australia. The Duchess of Portland’s great friend Mary Delany ‘a poor solitary grotto nymph’ was another great shell collector and it was during her staying at Bulstrode Park that she began her exquisite collage making.
Online Lecture
THURSDAY 18TH JULY 2024 AT 6 PM
One of the wealthiest women of 18th century England, she was a collector of art, natural history, botany and shells. After the death of her husband in 1762, she tended to the estate gardens at Bulstrode Park, adding a grotto, aviary and menagerie and introducing exotic plants, supplied by important botanists of the period: Philip Miller, Head Gardener at the nearby Chelsea Physic Garden, and Daniel Solander, the botanist and plant collector who accompanied Joseph Banks, another of her circle, on the HMS Endeavor to Australia. The Duchess of Portland’s great friend Mary Delany ‘a poor solitary grotto nymph’ was another great shell collector and it was during her staying at Bulstrode Park that she began her exquisite collage making.
Online Lecture
THURSDAY 18TH JULY 2024 AT 6 PM
One of the wealthiest women of 18th century England, she was a collector of art, natural history, botany and shells. After the death of her husband in 1762, she tended to the estate gardens at Bulstrode Park, adding a grotto, aviary and menagerie and introducing exotic plants, supplied by important botanists of the period: Philip Miller, Head Gardener at the nearby Chelsea Physic Garden, and Daniel Solander, the botanist and plant collector who accompanied Joseph Banks, another of her circle, on the HMS Endeavor to Australia. The Duchess of Portland’s great friend Mary Delany ‘a poor solitary grotto nymph’ was another great shell collector and it was during her staying at Bulstrode Park that she began her exquisite collage making.