Jonathan Tyers's other garden

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Abstract
Jonathan Tyers (1702–1767) is undoubtedly best remembered as the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens which he transformed in the years after his acquisition of the lease in 1728 into one of the focal points of fashionable life in London.1 Vauxhall was, in almost every respect, the epitome of the continental Rococo style modified to suit English taste. The flimsy rococo-Gothic architecture, the leafy avenues embellished with triumphal arches, the open-air supper-boxes with their splendid painted decorations by Hayman and his studio were a testament to Tyers's patronage of that group of artists who gravitated around the coffee-houses in St. Martin's Lane, as well as to his entrepreneurial talents.2

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