Design (unexecuted) for the painted dome of the breakfasting-room, Kedleston

~Adam was introduced to Sir Nathaniel Curzon by his friend General Sir Charles Hay in December 1758, a month after he succeeded as fifth baronet. Had their meeting taken place a few months earlier, the job of building a new house at Kedleston in Derbyshire to rival Holkham might have gone to Adam instead of the sixty-year-old Matthew Brettingham. None the less, it...