The castle was designed and built after Vanbrugh had been the architect of the baroque houses at Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, and shortly after Vanbrugh succeeded his architectural mentor Christopher Wren as Surveyor to the Royal Naval Hospital in 1716.
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Mabuse shows Antwerp influence in the large altar-pieces previously located at Castle Howard and Scawby.
He was prolific and received many commissions, including work at Melbourne Hall, Castle Howard, Buckingham House and Chatsworth.
Switzer helped execute London's designs at Castle Howard, Yorkshire (from 1706), notably the "wilderness", at Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire (from about 1713), and at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.
In 1798 he was one of the syndicate who bought the Orleans Collection of paintings, many of which remain in Castle Howard.
At Castle Howard, the Earl of Carlisle had obtained The Adoration of the Kings previously created for the Grandmontines, which throws together some thirty figures on an architectural background, varied in detail, massive in shape and fanciful in ornament.