William Kent Garden Designer

William kent was born in 1685 in yorkshire and in early years made rather unsuccessful attempts at portrait painting.

William kent garden designer. He firstly trained as a sign painter then progressed to painting coaches before moving onto landscape painting. A generous benefactor enabled kent to travel and study painting in italy where settling in rome for ten years kent made a living. Kent design for chimney piece.

An assessment and catalogue of his designs. By tim richardson 14 march 2014 07. William kent s remark that all gardening is landscape painting continues to influence garden designers.

William kent was not educated as a landscape designer and he had very little knowledge of plants his approach to design was as an artist. John dixon hunt william kent. 1685 bridlington yorkshire eng died april 12 1748 london english architect interior designer landscape gardener and painter a principal master of the palladian architectural style in england and pioneer in the creation of the informal english garden.

William kent born c. William kent then became a landscape designer and in walpole s famous words proved himself born with a genius to strike out a great system from the twilight of imperfect essays. William kent was born in bridlington east yorkshire.

1685 12 april 1748 was an eminent 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. Designer william kent s greatest talent is sidelined in a new v a exhibition finds tim richardson. Kent introduced the palladian style of architecture into england with the villa at chiswick.

Landscape design to him was a visual endeavor plants were chosen for their form texture and color and were secondary to the composition of the design. William kent was a furniture and interior designer architect and english garden landscaper of the early 18th century in the early georgian era. William kent 1685 1748 was the leading architect and designer of early georgian britain.