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The grounds of the Palace have a connection to another Catherine, Catherine the Great, the Empress of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4034277LEAD IN: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has been touring the gardens of Hampton Court . The grounds of the Palace have a connection to another Catherine, Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia.She was so inspired by what she saw that she acquired a series of paintings of the gardens, with the intention of inspiring her gardeners in Russia. Now a selection of those artworks have been returned to Hampton Court where they were created. STORY-LINE:The great gardens of Hampton Court Palace were once playgrounds to princes and kings. Now gardeners tend the formal beds where time seems to have stayed still. Today's views are similar to how the gardens looked when the famed gardener Lancelot \"Capability\" Brown was in charge of the estate in the 18th Century. To celebrate Capability Brown's 300th anniversary a rare collection of drawings and landscapes have been returned to Hampton Court, after being discovered in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. But Russian experts were unsure of the identity of the artist says Prof. Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum. \"These drawings they had the title which had the name of the artist but it disappeared. Maybe some of the drawings disappeared because somebody wanted to build using the existing drawings and has done a design and so on. So then have been there for a long time just as part of the collection of Catherine the Great in an inventory but without the name of the author. Then it was rediscovered by Mikhail Dedinkin and then the real story of collaboration, co-operation begins. Because we needed very much to see the collections in Britain to recognise the places\" Mikhail Dedinkin, Deputy head of Western European Art at The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg explains how he chanced upon this artistic detective story\" When I started to look at the hermitage drawing collection I found two albums of drawings and watercolours. There were 150 mostly views of Hampton Court Palace and gardens. They were all by the same hand and dated 1777. My task was to discover who the artist was and to find out why and how they came to be here in St Petersburg\". The Hampton Court views show the English landscape style at its best - always including a water feature at its centre.Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was a keen consumer of foreign culture and especially an admirer of English gardens. She commissioned the English pottery masters Wedgwood to create a tea set for fifty people known as the Frog Service, painted to depict some of the most famous English landscapes. Now the tea service and sixty paintings from the collection have been brought back to where they were first created - Hampton Court. The mystery painter was John Spyers, assistant to Lancelot \"Capability\" Brown when he was head gardener at Hampton Court. An ambitious and competent draughtsman Spyers sold the drawings to the Empress for a small fortune to assist her gardeners recreate a similar style.Experts know little of Spyers, and a image of him is not known to exist.Sebastian Edwards, Deputy Chief Curator and Head of Collections, Historic Royal Palaces says that Spyers'  watercolours and sketches are like photographs of the Hampton Court gardens at the time of George III.  \" Spyers is not a famous painter nobody really heard of him not even scholars knew much about him, we still don't. But they are an amazing record of the palace and they are also very valuable because they are very honest drawings of the palace. They are more like photography in many ways, so they have a fantastic detail in them both of the buildings themselves and the people who worked at or visited the palace in the 18th century about which we know surprisingly little. Once the Kings and Queens left we don't know much about the kinds of people who filled the palace.\"The gardens were originally created by King William and Queen Mary when they lived here in the 17th Century, with formal landscaping and clipped yews. In the 18th century, royal garden director Capability Brown loosened the formal style. Terry Gough, the current Head of gardens and Estates for Historic Royal Palaces, says he is relieved to learn that not much has changed over the last 250-odd years. \" Well it's very refreshing because what it reassured me was how much, apart from small details, the Hampton Court Palace gardens and the wider estate, how little it had changed in 250 odd years, it was remarkable. What had happened was you had the very formal garden that was created by William and Mary 300 years ago and gradually it became a little bit looser and a little bit less formal. And it becomes even more looser and less formal under Brown.\"'The Empress and the Gardener' exhibition runs until 4 September 2016. FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4034277LEAD IN: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has been touring the gardens of Hampton Court . The grounds of the Palace have a connection to another Catherine, Catherine the Great, the Empress of Russia.She was so inspired by what she saw that she acquired a series of paintings of the gardens, with the intention of inspiring her gardeners in Russia. Now a selection of those artworks have been returned to Hampton Court where they were created. STORY-LINE:The great gardens of Hampton Court Palace were once playgrounds to princes and kings. Now gardeners tend the formal beds where time seems to have stayed still. Today's views are similar to how the gardens looked when the famed gardener Lancelot \"Capability\" Brown was in charge of the estate in the 18th Century. To celebrate Capability Brown's 300th anniversary a rare collection of drawings and landscapes have been returned to Hampton Court, after being discovered in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. But Russian experts were unsure of the identity of the artist says Prof. Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum. \"These drawings they had the title which had the name of the artist but it disappeared. Maybe some of the drawings disappeared because somebody wanted to build using the existing drawings and has done a design and so on. So then have been there for a long time just as part of the collection of Catherine the Great in an inventory but without the name of the author. Then it was rediscovered by Mikhail Dedinkin and then the real story of collaboration, co-operation begins. Because we needed very much to see the collections in Britain to recognise the places\" Mikhail Dedinkin, Deputy head of Western European Art at The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg explains how he chanced upon this artistic detective story\" When I started to look at the hermitage drawing collection I found two albums of drawings and watercolours. There were 150 mostly views of Hampton Court Palace and gardens. They were all by the same hand and dated 1777. My task was to discover who the artist was and to find out why and how they came to be here in St Petersburg\". The Hampton Court views show the English landscape style at its best - always including a water feature at its centre.Empress Catherine the Great of Russia was a keen consumer of foreign culture and especially an admirer of English gardens. She commissioned the English pottery masters Wedgwood to create a tea set for fifty people known as the Frog Service, painted to depict some of the most famous English landscapes. Now the tea service and sixty paintings from the collection have been brought back to where they were first created - Hampton Court. The mystery painter was John Spyers, assistant to Lancelot \"Capability\" Brown when he was head gardener at Hampton Court. An ambitious and competent draughtsman Spyers sold the drawings to the Empress for a small fortune to assist her gardeners recreate a similar style.Experts know little of Spyers, and a image of him is not known to exist.Sebastian Edwards, Deputy Chief Curator and Head of Collections, Historic Royal Palaces says that Spyers'  watercolours and sketches are like photographs of the Hampton Court gardens at the time of George III.  \" Spyers is not a famous painter nobody really heard of him not even scholars knew much about him, we still don't. But they are an amazing record of the palace and they are also very valuable because they are very honest drawings of the palace. They are more like photography in many ways, so they have a fantastic detail in them both of the buildings themselves and the people who worked at or visited the palace in the 18th century about which we know surprisingly little. Once the Kings and Queens left we don't know much about the kinds of people who filled the palace.\"The gardens were originally created by King William and Queen Mary when they lived here in the 17th Century, with formal landscaping and clipped yews. In the 18th century, royal garden director Capability Brown loosened the formal style. Terry Gough, the current Head of gardens and Estates for Historic Royal Palaces, says he is relieved to learn that not much has changed over the last 250-odd years. \" Well it's very refreshing because what it reassured me was how much, apart from small details, the Hampton Court Palace gardens and the wider estate, how little it had changed in 250 odd years, it was remarkable. What had happened was you had the very formal garden that was created by William and Mary 300 years ago and gradually it became a little bit looser and a little bit less formal. And it becomes even more looser and less formal under Brown.\"'The Empress and the Gardener' exhibition runs until 4 September 2016. Hampton Court Palace, London  -  27th April 20161. Wide of Hampton Court Palace2. Wide of Privy garden from roof3. Various of gardeners clipping an ornamental bush and hoeing4. Wide of front facade of Hampton Court Palace5. Various of Prof. Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum looking at a tapestry wall hanging in Hampton Court6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Prof. Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg :\"These drawings they had the title which had the name of the artist but it disappeared. Maybe some of the drawings disappeared because somebody wanted to build using the existing drawings and has done a design and so on. So then have been there for a long time just as part of the collection of Catherine the Great in an inventory but without the name of the author. Then it was rediscovered by Mikhail Dedinkin and then the real story of collaboration, co-operation begins. Because we needed very much to see the collections in Britain to recognise the places\" 7. Wide of Long Water and yew tree avenues from palace roofHampton Court Palace, London  -  26th April 20168. Wide of yew tree avenue9. Various of Mikhail Dedinkin, Deputy head of Western European Art at The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg looking at the same views drawn by John Spyres drawn in the 18th Century10. Wide of some of John Spyers drawings of Hampton Court Gardens11. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Mikhail Dedinkin, Deputy head of Western European Art at The Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg : \" When I started to look at the hermitage drawing collection I found two albums of drawings and watercolours. There were 150 mostly views of Hampton Court Palace and gardens. They were all by the same hand and dated 1777. My task was to discover who the artist was and to find out why and how they came to be here in St Petersburg.\"12. Various of Frog tea service showing English country house landscapes commissioned by Catherine the Great13. Various of Sebastian Edwards, exhibition curator looking at a floor plan indicating the various views drawn by artist John Spyers14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sebastian Edwards, Deputy Chief Curator and Head of Collections, Historic Royal Palaces : \" Spyers is not a famous painter nobody really heard of him not even scholars knew much about him, we still don't. But they are an amazing record of the palace and they are also very valuable because they are very honest drawings of the palace. They are more like photography in many ways, so they have a fantastic detail in them both of the buildings themselves and the people who worked at or visited the palace in the 18th century about which we know surprisingly little. Once the Kings and Queens left we don't know much about the kinds of people who filled the palace.\"15. Various of three portraits: Empress Catherine the Great, Lancelot \"Capability\" Brown and King George III 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sebastian Edwards, Deputy Chief Curator and Head of Collections, Historic Royal Palaces : \" I think many people today sit and think of an English style of gardening and they will either think of a cottage garden full of flowers rather natural looking or they'll think of the great landscapes like Brown's landscapes. For many people they won't think of that as an international style and it really was influential and it went on influencing gardens across the world for the next century or so, and then was revived again in the 20th and 21st century. So I think that will be an eye-opener to people that as far away as cold places like Russia where it's much harder to grow lawns or have lakes that aren't frozen half the year round.But this was very important to Catherine. She said she had an Anglomania to her friend the philosopher Voltaire.\"Hampton Court Palace, London  -  27th April 201617. Wide of formal garden from roof of palace18. Various of Terry Gough, Head of gardens and Estates for Historic Royal Palaces talking to palace gardeners19. Close-up of daffodils20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Terry Gough, Head of gardens and Estates for Historic Royal Palaces : \" Well it's very refreshing because what it reassured me was how much, apart from small details, the Hampton Court Palace gardens and the wider estate, how little it had changed in 250 odd years, it was remarkable. What had happened was you had the very formal garden that was created by William and Mary 300 years ago and gradually it became a little bit looser and a little bit less formal. And it becomes even more looser and less formal under Brown.\"21. Various of Hampton Court Palace and gardens22. Various of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown's House in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace.23. 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