Nicholas Hawksmoor and the Duke of Kent's Art Gallery at No. 4, St. James Square.

A pedimented Baroque building fronting on to the garden of one of the earliest surviving houses in St. James Square is shown to be the front of a private Art Gallery built by the first Duke of Kent, in or about 1711, when Nicholas Hawksmoor was engaged in work on this and the adjoining property, No. 3. On the basis of the remaining parts of the building and recent archaeological investigation a tentative reconstruction of the Gallery is offered and an unrecognised building by Hawksmoor is identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]