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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
William Kent (born c. 1685, Bridlington, Yorkshire, Eng.—died April 12, 1748, London) was an English architect, interior designer, landscape gardener, and painter. He was a principal master of the Palladian architectural style in England and a pioneer in the creation of the “informal” English garden. Kent was said to have been apprenticed ...
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Mar 21, 2014 · But then Kent’s PR always erred on the side of a triumphalism carried by confidence, a strategy for reputation-building since adopted by many a modern artist. Kent’s legacies – for there are ...
