to fix here." Probably the growing discord between King and Commons scared the painter. George Geldorp was a poor painter but a favourite at Court. He kept many assistants, and appears to have had a considerable establishment for producing pictures. He also acted as agent or broker for his artistic countrymen, and, according to Vertue and Walpole, "his house was found convenient for the intrigues of people of fashion."

Arches (Court of). [See Doctors' Commons.]

Architects (Royal Institute of British). [See Institute of British Architects.]

Architectural Museum, No. 18 TUFTON STREET, Westminster, was formed chiefly by the exertions of Mr. Ruskin, Mr. Beresford Hope, Sir Gilbert Scott, and other devoted admirers of Gothic architecture. The Museum comprises a very extensive series of casts from British cathedrals and other medieval edifices, Venetian and other Italian buildings, collected by Mr. Ruskin, and many miscellaneous casts and models. There are some classical and more renaissance specimens, but the bulk of the collection is medieval. Originally exhibited in lofts in a mews in Canon Row, Westminster, it removed for space to a gallery at the South Kensington Museum; it was transferred in 1869 to the present building, which had been erected for its reception. The Museum is open free daily.

Argyll House, No. 7 ARGyll Street, REGENT STREET, was a plain building "with a small area and wall before it." Originally the residence of the ducal family of Argyll. Elizabeth Gunning, the celebrated beauty, Duchess of Hamilton and afterwards the wife of John, fifth Duke of Argyll, died in "Great Argyle Street" on December 20, 1790. It was purchased shortly after the death of the fifth Duke of Argyll by the Earl of Aberdeen ("the travelled Thane,, Athenian Aberdeen"). On his death in 1860 the freehold was sold, the house taken down, and a large building erected on the site, part of which was appropriated as a bazaar, the rest for exhibition rooms and wine cellars. The bazaar was unsuccessful, and the building has since undergone many changes. The main portion is now occupied by Hengler's Circus, which was rebuilt in 1884-1885.

Argyll Place, at the south end of ARGYLL STREET, between GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET and REGENT STREET. James Northcote, the painter, removed to No. 8 from Argyll Street; here he held his remarkable conversations with Hazlitt, and here he died (July 13, 1831). Here Sir Walter Scott sat to him on May 9 and 11, 1828, at the request of Sir William Knighton. Scott records in his Diary :

Another long sitting to the old wizard Northcote. He really resembles an animated mummy . . . low in stature and bent with years-fourscore at least. But the eye is quick and the countenance noble. A pleasant companion, familiar with recollections of Sir Joshua, Samuel Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith, etc.-Lockhart's Life of Scott, chap. lxxvi.

Argyll Rooms formerly stood on the east side of Regent Street and at the corner of Little Argyll Street. They were built by John Nash in 1818, and burnt down in 1830. Fashionable balls and masquerades were held here, and the Philharmonic Society gave its concerts in the building from 1813 to 1830. Spohr appeared at these concerts in 1820, Weber in 1826, and Mendelssohn in 1829. M. Chabert, the "fire king," exhibited his remarkable performances here in 1829. The Argyll Rooms (now the Trocadero) in Windmill Street obtained a very unsavoury reputation, and have no history worthy of relation. \ Argyll Street, OXFORD STREET, east of REGENT STREET, derives its name from Argyll House. The good Lord Lyttelton lived in this Street.

West, Mallet, and I were all routed in one day if you would know why-out of resentment to our friend in Argyll Street.-Thomson, the Poet, to James Paterson, April 1748.

When Mrs. Thrale gave up her house at Streatham, on October 1782, she took a house in Argyll Street, and when Boswell visited London in the March following, he found Johnson domesticated in her London house as he had been at Streatham. The estrangement was of later date. James Northcote lived at No. 39-"a house small but commodious "-(in the earlier R.A. Catalogues it is given as 39 Argyll Buildings) from April 1790 till 1822; here he painted his chief pictures, and wrote his Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Sir William John Newton, the miniature painter (died 1869), lived at No. 8. Madame de Staël, on her visit to England in 1813, lodged at No. 30, and on the drawing-room floor received a number of visitors at what might be called her levées. In this street was born, January 7, 1743, Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent naturalist and President of the Royal Society.

Arlington House (formerly Goring House) in ST. JAMES'S PARK, was distinguished by a large and handsome cupola, and stood north and south,1 on the site of what is now Buckingham Palace. It was so called from being the town-house of Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II. The site of the Mulberry Garden adjoining his house was granted to Lord Arlington by Charles. II. for a residence, 1672, at a rent of 20 shillings a year, for 99 years. In September 1674 the house was burnt down, while the Earl and Countess were at Bath; a new house was at once built and named Arlington House.

His Majesty has been pleased to give my Lord Arlington the ground at the farther end of the Park, where the Deer-harbour is, which is walled in as you go towards Hyde Park; in lieu of which His Majesty takes his house and garden into the Park for his use. The Lord Arlington has already sold the ground for £20,000, whereon will be built a stately square.-The Loyal Protestant and True Domestick Intelligencer, No. 127, March 11, 1682. Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, vol. iv. p. 70.

1 Morden and Lea's large Map of London, I. Harris delin. et sculp., 1700. There is a rare contemporary engraving of the house by Sutton

Nicholls.

2 Walpole's Anecdotes, by Dallaway, vol. iii. p. 71.

At the upper end of the Park [St. James's] westward is Arlington House; so called from the Earl of Arlington, owner thereof. At whose death it fell to his daughter, the Duchess of Grafton, and the young Duke her son. It is a most neat Box, and sweetly seated amongst Gardens, besides the Prospect of the Park and the adjoining fields. At present the Duke of Devonshire resideth here, as tenant to the Duchess of Grafton.-R.B. (circ. 1698), in Strype, B. vi. p. 47.

The Earl of Arlington dying (1685) without male issue, the house descended to his daughter, Lady Isabella Bennet, "the sweet child" of Evelyn's Diary, married to Henry Fitzroy, first Duke of Grafton. She let it to the first Duke of Devonshire, and subsequently sold it for £13,000 (1702) to Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham; who, after obtaining an additional grant from Queen Anne (given verbally), rebuilt it in 1703 in a magnificent manner. [See Goring House; Buckingham House and Palace.]

As an instance of the mind's unquietness under the most pleasing enjoyments, I am oftener missing a pretty gallery in the old house I pulled down than pleased with a salon which I built in its stead, though a thousand times better in all manner of respects.— Works of Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, vol. ii. p. 264.

There was a maze in the gardens, similar to that which now exists at Hampton Court. It was celebrated by Charles Dryden in a poem called "Horti Arlingtoniani," inserted in his father's Second Miscellany.

18 Arlington Square and Street, NEW NORTH ROAD, was laid out about 1850 in the field on the north of the Regent's Canal, which from the reign of Henry VII. till 1791 formed a part of the exercise ground of the Archers' Division of the Artillery Company.1 Here, in what is now the garden of No. 24 Arlington Street, was one of the Company's stone rovers, or distance marks for forward shooting, as distinguished from shooting at a butt or target. This rover was called the John, and was inscribed F.G., 1679: others were called Robin Hood and Scarlet. The John rover was removed when the ground was enclosed.2

Arlington Street, MORNINGTON CRESCENT, CAMDEN TOWN, was so called after or in allusion to Isabella Bennet, only daughter and heir of Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and wife of Henry Fitzroy, first Duke of Grafton, natural son of Charles II. by the Duchess of Cleveland. Charles Dibdin, the song-writer, died, July 25, 1814, in this street, then a pleasant row of little houses, looking on extensive nursery-grounds and fields; since built on, or included in the Regent's Park.

Whitehall, June 6, 1673.-£5388: 17:6 to be payde by William Prettiman for purchase of a lease of lands in Kentish Towne, helde of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, to be enjoyed by the Earle of Arlington; and after his death by the Earle of Euston and his heires.-Corr. of Sir Joseph Williamson, vol. i. p. 22; Cam. Soc. 1874.

Arlington Street, PICCADILLY, west of and parallel with St. James's Street. Built 1689,3 on ground granted by Charles II. to 1 Highmore, History of Artillery Company.

2 Tomline, Y'seldon, p. 153. 3 Rate-books of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.

Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, by deed dated February 6, 1681. Lord Arlington sold the property the same year to a Mr. Pym, who for many years inhabited one of the largest houses in this street, and in whose family the ground still remains.

Sir Dudley North, the famous merchant (d. 1691), had a passion for watching

buildings in progress. His brother Roger says: "Wherever there was a parcel of 'building going on he went to survey it; and particularly the high buildings in Arlington Street, which were scarce covered in before all the windows were wrymouthed, fascias turned SS., and divers stacks of chimnies sunk right down, drawing roof and floors with them; and the point was to find out from whence all this decay proceeded.—Lives of the Norths, vol. iii. p. 210.

Eminent Inhabitants.-Duchess of Cleveland (1691-1696), after the death of Charles II., and when her means were too small to allow of her living any longer in Cleveland House. Duchess of Buckingham (1692-1694), the widow of Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, and daughter of Fairfax, the Parliamentary general. She was neglected by the Duke, and was called in derision, during the Duke's lifetime, the "Duchess Dowager." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, before her marriage, in the house of her father, the Marquis of Dorchester, afterwards Duke of Kingston.

In Arlington Street, next door to the Marquis of Dorchester, is a large house to be let, with a garden and a door into the Park.-Advertisement in No. 207 of The Tatler, August 5, 1710.

William Pulteney, Earl of Bath (1715), in a house on the west or Green Park side. Sir Robert Walpole became a resident here in 1716, and lived next door to Pulteney.

We're often taught it doth behove us

To think those greater who're above us;
Another instance of my glory,

Who live above you twice two story;

And from my garret can look down

On the whole street of Arlington.

FIELDING, Epistle to Sir Robert Walpole, 1730.

His son Horace was born here in 1717. When Sir Robert went out of office in 1742, he bought a smaller house, No. 5, on the east or "non-ministerial side," in which he died (1745-1746), and the lease of which he left to Horace, who lived in it till his removal, in 1779, to Berkeley Square.

June 30, 1742.—He (Sir Robert Walpole) goes into a small house of his own in Arlington Street, opposite to where we formerly lived.-Horace Walpole to Sir H. Mann (Letters, vol. i. p. 181).

January 6, 1743.-Next, as to Arlington Street: Sir Robert is in a middling kind of house, which has long been his, and was let; he has taken a small one next to it for me, and they are laid together.-Walpole to Mann (Letters, vol. i. p. 223).

September 30, 1750.—I was sitting in my own dining-room on Sunday night, the clock had not struck eleven, when I heard a loud cry of "Stop thief!" a highwayman had attacked a post-chaise in Piccadilly, within fifty yards of this house: the fellow was pursued, rode over the watchman, almost killed him and escaped.-Walpole to Mann (Letters, vol. ii. p. 227).

December 1, 1768.-Nothing can be more dignified than this position. From my earliest memory Arlington Street has been the ministerial street. The Duke of Grafton is actually coming into the house of Mr. Pelham, which my Lord President is quitting, and which occupies too the ground on which my father lived; and Lord Weymouth has just taken the Duke of Dorset's: yet you and I, I doubt, shall always be on the wrong side of the way.-Walpole to George Montagu (Letters, vol. v. p. 136).

October 21, 1779.-You perceive by the date that I have removed into my new house [Berkeley Square]. It is seeming to take a new lease of life. I was born in Arlington Street, lived there about fourteen years, returned thither, and passed thirty-seven more.-Walpole to Mason (Letters, vol. vii. p. 262).

Walpole's house, after passing through many hands, became the property of Edward Ellice, Esq., M.P., and then till his death of the Right Hon. Sir R. J. Phillimore. A Society of Arts tablet has been placed on the front of the house. No. 18 is the residence of Sir John Pender, M.P., and contains a fine collection of modern pictures, including, among others, Landseer's Highland Shepherd in a Storm and Dead Stag; Venice, Mercury and Argus, and Wreckers, by Turner; Gipseys' Toilette and La Gloria, by Philip; Napoleon crossing the Alps, by Delaroche; Francesca and Paolo, by Ary Scheffer, and others by Stanfield, Nasmyth, Creswick, Linnell, Faed, and Millais.

Lord Carteret lived at the last house in the street on the Green Park side.-Lord Carteret to Swift, Arlington Street, June 20, 1724. He built the present house about 1734. Henry Pelham, at No. 17, on the site where Sir R. Walpole had lived, the house built by William Kent, now the Earl of Yarborough's. Walpole speaks of "the great as "remarkable for magnificence."

August 7, 1732.-Lady Carteret writes me word that she has bought the ground her house stood on in Arlington Street, and that my Lord designs to build there.— Mrs. Delany, Correspondence, vol. i. p. 369.

Hough, the good old Bishop of Worcester, is dead. I have been looking at the "fathers in God," that have been flocking over the way this morning to Mr. Pelham, who is just come to his new house. This is absolutely the ministerial street: Carteret has a house here too;. and Lord Bath seems to have lost his chance by quitting this street.-Walpole to Mann, Arlington Street, May 12, 1743.

Among the works of art at Lord Yarborough's are-Bust of Laurence Sterne, by Nollekens; marble group of Neptune and Tritons, by Bernini, purchased of the executors of Sir Joshua Reynolds for £500; Frost Scene, by Cuyp, a first-rate specimen; two fine pictures (The Wreck and The Vintage) by J. M. W. Turner, R.A.

No. 19 is the Earl of Zetland's. No. 20, the town-house of the Marquises of Salisbury, was lately rebuilt by the present Marquis.

David Mallet was living here 1746-1747. Charles James Fox, for a short time, at No. 14. At No. 14 lived and died General Fitzpatrick.—— Dyce's Table Talk of Samuel Rogers, p. 105. Lord Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, the friend of Pitt, lived at No. 6.

Lord Nelson.—

In the winter of 1800-1801 [January 13, 1801] I was breakfasting with Lord and