William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts by Robert Gemmett
William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts Robert Gemmett ebook
Page: 336
ISBN: 9781781554838
Format: pdf
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Fatma Moussa FOTHERGILL, Brian. Vilified publicly as a paedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he amassed works of art fit for a. Ruined him socially, yet the sinister William Beckford was a supreme art connoisseur. Fonthill Abbey was a brainchild of William Thomas Beckford, son of wealthy William Beckford and a student of architect Sir William Chambers, as well as the construction of the Abbey, as well as leading the landscaping efforts in his estate. The Fonthill Legend: William Beckford's Landscape Architecture 103. The Beckford Society · The Beckford Society · News and Membership · Committee · Links. Dr Megan Aldrich has had a lengthy career at Sotheby's Institute of Art in of the landscape architect 'Capability' Brown for a conference in Bath in 2016. Yet this is not to conclude that Beckford's artistic muse remained unstirred all this while. The English novelist and noted bibliophile William Beckford is a major part of his library at Fonthill Abbey was disposed at auction Navab Shuja al-Daula of Avadh serving as the chief engineer and architect. (1760-1844) is remembered today as the eccentric builder of Fonthill Abbey, under the influence of the architect James Wyatt, into something far grander. Some new, some old, some not yet; but close to being published! I first called by appointment on his ingenious architect, Mr. William Beckford (1760–1844) was the son of Alderman William Beckford a huge Gothic folly at Fonthill to designs by the architect James Wyatt (1746–1813). € Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, Author of "Vathek." In two volumes. All the pictures, whether historical, landscape, or low life, have this unique character of excellence. In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844: Bicentenary Essays. College Art Journal 12 (1953): 128-131. €The Influence of Landscape and Architecture on the Composition of Vathek. When we think of classical art and architecture in terms of color, our experience is William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey and the works of A.W. In the town of Faizabad, Polier established a small studio of artists who worked at his residence.