One can still experience the opulence & vigour of the Baroque in its birthplace in Mayfair - walk into #Handel house on #brookstreet @handel_hendrix & you feel as well as hear & see the golden opulence ⚜️ Handel spent most of his time with his patroness, the inspirational salon hostess #DorothySavile & her husband Richard Boyle Duke of Burlington & Cork who was Handel’s lover ⚜️The three lived together for over 7 years but the Duke’s longest relationship other than his friendship with Dorothy was with #Williamkent the #eccentric #architect responsible for the Palladianisation of #Mayfair & #London in the 1730s - Kent & Richard - the Duke of Burlington & Cork & the Duchess - Dorothy Savile - spent over 30 years together at Burlington House (now Royal Accedemy) Proving the truth of Oscar Wilde’s aphorism that “in marriage threes company and two is none” 🦉Dorothy’s salons were famed as the Burlington Circle A cultural and intellectual salon that attracted writers artists and scientists including David Garrick and the Queen herself it was the premier salon before Lady Elizabeth Montague whom #LordByron crowned Queen of the “blues” ( NB only a few Victorian misogynists actually called the #eccentric #salons that served as cultural & intellectual incubators from 1603- 1939 #bluestocking #salons ) Lady Montagu set up her original #celebrity #Eccentric salon on #HillStreet #Mayfair the latter half of the 1700s before moving to her famous house designed by #RobertAdams on #PortmanSquare behind @theofficialselfridges in the 1770’s ⚜️the interior walls were covered in artworks by #AngelicaKaufmann apart from the drawing room where she hosted her salons which was lined in #peacockfeathers ⚜️🥂🍾⚜️ @muirvidler @highfashionhockey @handel_hendrix @velveteccentric (at Mayfair) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0zH1LsgCf5/?igshid=c09bh35362hs