Professionally his career was closely bound at first with Sir Andrew Fountaine, a virtuoso and amateur architect, at Narford, and then to Colen Campbell, to whom he seems to have acted as assistant, as at Studley Royal in Yorkshire,[4] and Lord Pembroke, one of the 'architect earls'. Lord Pembroke's connoisseurship combined with Morris's practical experience produced Marble Hill House (illustration, above right) for Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, 1724–29; the White Lodge, Richmond 1727-28;[5] and, after Morris's tour to Italy with George Bubb Dodington (June 1731 - September 1732),[6] Morris completed the interiors of Sir John Vanbrugh's incomplete Eastbury House, Dorset, for Dodington, 1733-38 (the house was exploded and razed in 1775);[7] at a later date Morris designed and built a house at Hammersmith, near London, for Bubb Dodington (there a gallery was designed by Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni);[8] the Column of Victory at Blenheim Palace (illustrated, left) for Marlborough's widow, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 1730;[9] Wimbledon House, 1732–33, also for the Duchess; the Palladian Bridge, Wilton House, 1736–37; and probably, Howard Colvin suggests, Westcombe House, Blackheath, near London, (ca 1730) which became Pembroke's own.[10] Lord Pembroke presented Morris with a silver cup in 1734 as a token of his regard for him.[11]
John Morris's Palladian villa in town, at 12, Grosvenor Square (1727, for John Aislabie) has been thoroughly dissected by the Survey of London[15]
Morris's independent designs are not pale exercises in Palladianism by any means. "His villas, for example, were, and are, strikingly original in contrast to Campbell's," John Harris has observed,[16] "and Carné's Seat at Goodwood characterises the individual style Morris bestowed upon temple buildings." John Harris has demonstrated that Morris made a design for the Porter's Lodge at Wilton House,ca. 1733.[17]
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