BURLINGTON, RICHARD BOYLE, 3RD EARL OF

born April 25, 1694, London, Eng. died Dec. 4?, 1753, London English architect who was one of the originators of the English Palladian (Neo-Palladian) style of the 18th century. Burlington was studying architecture by 1717, specifically the works of Andrea Palladio and Inigo Jones, and began practice upon returning to London from Vicenza, Italy, in 1719. He advocated a revival of Palladio's and Jones's interpretation of classical tenets and assembled a collection, the largest to that time, of their drawings (now in the British Architectural Library, London), from which most of his own buildings are derived. About 1721 Burlington designed Great (now Old) Burlington Street, No. 29. In 1725 he designed his villa at Chiswick (now in the outer London borough of Hounslow), one of the most influential Palladian buildings in England. The Assembly Rooms at York with the Egyptian Hall (173132) are considered the culmination of Burlington's career.