Most theories, though, trace the move from straight lines and monocentric symmetry to the break with classical regularity and the appearance of the natural style to two eighteenth-century personalities: the leading man of taste, Lord Burlington, and his protege, William Kent.
從堅守直線、中軸對稱，到打破古典規則、創發自然風貌之濫觴，一般論著多將之歸功於十八世紀初期的兩位聞人：當時在英國領銜群倫的品味大師勃靈頓公爵，和他的親信食客肯特。