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See also:KENT, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1685-1748) , See also:English " painter, architect, and the See also:father of See also:modern gardening," as See also:Horace See also:Walpole in his Anecdotes of See also:Painting describes him, was See also:born in See also:Yorkshire in 1685. Apprenticed to a See also:coach-painter, his ambition soon led him to See also:London, where he began See also:life as a portrait and See also:historical painter. He found patrons, who sent him in 1710 to study in See also:Italy; and at See also:Rome he made other See also:friends, among them See also:Lord See also:Burlington, with whom he returned to See also:England in 1719. Under that nobleman's roof Kent chiefly resided till his See also:death on the 12th of See also:April 1748—obtaining abundant commissions in all departments of his See also:art, as well as various See also:court appointments which brought him an income of £600 a See also:year. Walpole says that Kent was below mediocrity in painting. He had some little See also:taste and skill in See also:architecture, of which Holkham See also:palace is perhaps the most favourable example. The mediocre statue of See also:Shakespeare in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey sufficiently stamps his See also:powers as a sculptor. His merit in landscape gardening is greater. In Walpole's See also:language, Kent " was painter enough to taste the charms of landscape, bold and opinionative enough to dare and to dictate, and born with a See also:genius to strike out a See also:great See also:system from the See also:twilight of imperfect essays." In See also:short, he was the first in English gardening to vindicate the natural against the artificial. Banishing all the clipped monstrosities of the See also:topiary art in See also:yew, See also:box or See also:holly, releasing the streams from the conventional See also:canal and See also:marble See also:basin, and rejecting the mathematical symmetry of ground See also:plan then in See also:vogue for gardens, Kent endeavoured to imitate the variety of nature, with due regard to the principles of See also:light and shade and See also:perspective. Sometimes he carried his See also:imitation too far, as when he planted dead trees in See also:Kensington gardens to give a greater See also:air of truth to the See also:scene, though he himself was one of the first to detect the folly of such an extreme. Kent's plans were designed rather with a view to immediate affect over a comparatively small See also:area than with regard to any broader or subsequent results.
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