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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_KentWilliam Kent - Wikipedia

    William Kent. William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, but his real talent was for design in various media.

  2. www.royalacademy.org.uk › art-artists › nameWilliam Kent | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

    William Kent (1685 - 1748) Painter, designer, architect and gardener, William Kent was one of the most wide-ranging talents in 18th century Britain. Kent was born into a modest family in Bridlington, Yorkshire in 1686, but found sufficient local patronage to allow him to travel to Italy. At a time when there was little in the way of formal ...

  3. www.hrp.org.uk › history-and-stories › william-kentWilliam Kent | Kensington Palace - Historic Royal Palaces

    William Kent (1685-1748) rose from humble origins as sign painter. Commissioned by Georges I and II he became one of the most successful and fashionable designers of the period. He was the first British designer to tackle the interior as a whole; extending an architect’s control to every detail of interior decoration, fireplaces and furnishings.

  4. artuk.org › discover › artistsKent, William, c.1685–1748 - Art UK

    William Kent (c.1685–1748) English Heritage, Chiswick House. (bapt. Bridlington, Yorkshire, 1 Jan. 1686; d London, 12 Apr. 1748). English architect, designer, landscape gardener, and painter, the most versatile British artist of his time. He began his career as a painter and spent a decade (1709–19) in Italy, mainly Rome, where in 1717 he ...

  5. www.vam.ac.uk › articles › william-kent-designingWilliam Kent: designing Georgian Britain - V&A

    Kent was a painter, an architect, and the father of modern gardening. In the first character he was below mediocrity; in the second, he was a restorer of the science; in the last, an original, and the inventor of an art that realizes painting and improves nature. Mahomet imagined an elysium, Kent created many.

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  7. artuk.org › remembering-the-art-of-william-kentRemembering the art of William Kent

    Mar 9, 2021 · William Kent, born in Bridlington in 1685, is now mainly remembered as a furniture designer, the first interior decorator, and a very competent, if uninspiring architect, scarcely ever as a painter. William Kent (1685–1748), Architect. William Aikman (1682–1731) Government Art Collection. In fact, he has had a consistently bad press as a ...

  8. www.ft.com › content › 0e99e552-a928-11e3-bf0c-00144How William Kent became 18th-century Britain’s master designer

    Mar 21, 2014 · Once there, having absorbed the ruins, catacombs, churches and palazzi, William Kent announced he had won a papal medal for painting, and the news spread of England’s “Second Raphael”.

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