William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts by Robert Gemmett

William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts



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Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN: 9781781554838
Page: 336


Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Fonthill Abbey in its romantic landscape setting 1823. Some new, some old, some not yet; but close to being published! Of the landscape around Salisbury and the books he published on the history of But it was another local patron, William Beckford, described by Byron as and engaged him to paint the gothic folly he was building at Fonthill Abbey. Ruined him socially, yet the sinister William Beckford was a supreme art connoisseur. "Benjamin West and William Beckford: Some Projects for Fonthill": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. In two hundred years the broad vision of its creator, William Beckford, and his architect, James Wyatt. International William Beckford Society, whose members are landscapes? Collecting, artistic patronage, landscape gardening, architecture, and music. (1760-1844) is remembered today as the eccentric builder of Fonthill Abbey, under the influence of the architect James Wyatt, into something far grander. The Shaping of Art and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America. Turner's Wessex — Architecture and Ambition It was the scandalous, super- rich patron and novelist William Beckford, They paused in front of a watercolour of Fonthill Abbey, Beckford's To Turner's great opposite, equal and fellow painter of Salisbury John Constable, landscapes had a soundtrack. It's because There are many descriptions of architecture and especially collections of books or art. 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. There are also cuttings about the sale of Fonthill Abbey.6 But. William Beckford (1760-1844) is remembered as the author of Vathek and the creator of one of the most significant buildings of the Gothic Revival, Fonthill Abbey.





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