Isaac Ware
Following the death of Richard Castle in 1751, little further about the building of Leinster House is recorded until 1759. By this time, the English architect Isaac Ware, famous for his A Complete Body of Architecture published in 1756, had become involved in the project. This drawing by Ware shows the ceiling design and three laid-back wall elevations for the first-floor dining room or saloon. A note in the top left corner indicated that Henry Fox, brother-in-law of the Earl's wife, acted as a go-between of some kind in the Earl’s dealings with his architect.
For Lady Kildare’s dressing room, Isaac Ware produced two very different schemes. The first was French Rococo which, had it been executed, would have made this a startling change from the other rooms in the house. The Kildares chose instead Ware’s second, more severe, scheme which is in the Palladian manner of his other rooms in Leinster House, perhaps more befitting to its subsequent use as the office of the Ceann Comhairle.