Roydon Hall is located in the village of East Peckham, Kent and was built by Thomas Roydon (1482-1557) during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Works by Henry Gilder are rare. One is held in the Victoria & Albert Museum and another, entitled
View from Rushmore Hill, with Mereworth beyond, Sevenoaks, Kent, was sold at Sotheby’s in July 2011 (£9,375). Gilder may have been in the employ, as a servant, of Thomas Sandby R.A., for when he exhibited at the Royal Academy, which he did between 1773 and 1778, he described his address as ‘At Mr Thomas Sandby’s, Windsor Great Park.’
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1. J. Roberts, Royal Landscapes, The Gardens and Parks of Windsor, New Haven 1997, p. 573