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William Kent, the Glossary

William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century.^[1]

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English Landscape Garden designers
English landscape and garden designers
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Portraits of William Shakespeare
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Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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Accademia di San Luca

The Accademia di San Luca (Academy of Saint Luke) is an Italian academy of artists in Rome.

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Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 O.S. – 30 May 1744) was an English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century. William Kent and Alexander Pope are English landscape and garden designers.

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Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio (Andrea Paładio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

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Annabel's

Annabel's is a private members club at 46 Berkeley Square in Mayfair, London.

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Ashby-de-la-Zouch

Ashby-de-la-Zouch, also spelled Ashby de la Zouch, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire borders.

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Aske Hall

Aske Hall is a Georgian country house, with parkland attributed to Capability Brown, north of Richmond, North Yorkshire, England.

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Badminton House

Badminton House is a large country house and Grade I Listed Building in Badminton, Gloucestershire, England, which has been the principal seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since the late 17th century.

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Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London.

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Blenheim Palace

Blenheim Palace is a country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.

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Bridlington

Bridlington is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Burlington House

Burlington House is a building on Piccadilly in Mayfair, London.

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Capability Brown

Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style. William Kent and Capability Brown are English Landscape Garden designers and English landscape architects.

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Caroline of Ansbach

Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline; 1 March 1683 – 20 November 1737) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Electress of Hanover from 11 June 1727 until her death in 1737 as the wife of King George II.

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Charing Cross

Charing Cross is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet.

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Charles Bridgeman

Charles Bridgeman (1690–1738) was an English garden designer who helped pioneer the naturalistic landscape style. William Kent and Charles Bridgeman are English Landscape Garden designers and English landscape architects.

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Chester Cathedral

Chester Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral and the mother church of the Diocese of Chester.

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Chiswick House

Chiswick House is a Neo-Palladian style villa in the Chiswick district of London, England.

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City of Westminster

The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status in Greater London, England.

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Claremont (country house)

Claremont, also known historically as 'Clermont', is an 18th-century Palladian mansion less than a mile south of the centre of Esher in Surrey, England.

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Claremont Landscape Garden

Claremont Landscape Garden, just outside Esher, Surrey, England, is one of the earliest surviving gardens of its kind of landscape design, the English Landscape Garden — still featuring its original 18th-century layout.

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Classical order

An order in architecture is a certain assemblage of parts subject to uniform established proportions, regulated by the office that each part has to perform.

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Colen Campbell

Colen Campbell (15 June 1676 – 13 September 1729) was a pioneering Scottish architect and architectural writer who played an important part in the development of the Georgian style.

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Country Life (books)

Country Life books are publications, mostly on English country houses and gardens, compiled from the articles and photographic archives of Country Life magazine, usually published in the UK by Aurum Press and in the USA by Rizzoli.

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Court painter

A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work.

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Deal, Kent

Deal is a coastal town in Kent, England, which lies where the North Sea and the English Channel meet, north-east of Dover and south of Ramsgate.

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Devonshire House

Devonshire House in Piccadilly, was the London townhouse of the Dukes of Devonshire during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Ditchley Park

Ditchley Park is a country house near Charlbury in Oxfordshire, England.

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East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, often abbreviated to the East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England.

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Easton Neston house

Easton Neston is a large grade I listed country house in the parish of Easton Neston near Towcester in Northamptonshire, England.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which had emerged in the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Esher Place

Esher Place is a Grade-II listed country house, since 1953 used as a college by the trade union Unite, in Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom.

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Euston Hall

Euston Hall is a country house, with park by William Kent and Capability Brown, located in Euston, a small village in Suffolk located just south of Thetford, England.

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Exedra

An exedra (exedras or exedrae) is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Frederick, Prince of Wales

Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Louis,; 31 January 170731 March 1751) was the eldest son and heir apparent of King George II of Great Britain.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle KG PC JP (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier, who fought on both sides during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

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Giulio Romano

Giulio Pippi (– 1 November 1546), known as Giulio Romano (Jules Romain), was an Italian painter and architect.

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Gloucester Cathedral

Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity and formerly St Peter's Abbey, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn.

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Godfrey Kneller

Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723) was a German-British painter. William Kent and Godfrey Kneller are principal Painters in Ordinary.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Greenwich

Greenwich is a town in south-east London, England, within the ceremonial county of Greater London.

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Hampton Court Palace

Hampton Court Palace is a Grade I listed royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, southwest and upstream of central London on the River Thames.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Henry Pelham

Henry Pelham (25 September 1694 – 6 March 1754) was a British Whig statesman who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1743 until his death in 1754.

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Henry VII Chapel

The Henry VII Lady Chapel, now more often known just as the Henry VII Chapel, is a large Lady chapel at the far eastern end of Westminster Abbey, England, paid for by the will of King Henry VII.

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Holkham Hall

Holkham Hall is an 18th-century country house near the village of Holkham, Norfolk, England, constructed in the Neo-Palladian style for the 1st Earl of Leicester (of the fifth creation of the title)The Earldom of Leicester has been, to date, created seven times.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

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Horse Guards (building)

Horse Guards is a historic building in the City of Westminster, London, between Whitehall and Horse Guards Parade.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the art and science of growing plants.

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Houghton Hall

Houghton Hall is a country house in the parish of Houghton in Norfolk, England.

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Inigo Jones

Inigo Jones (possibly born Ynyr Jones; 15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant architect in England in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.

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James Gibbs

James Gibbs (23 December 1682 – 5 August 1754) was a Scottish architect.

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James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope

James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope (c. 16735 February 1721) was a British Army officer, politician, diplomat and peer who effectively served as Chief Minister between 1717 and 1721.

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James Thornhill

Sir James Thornhill (25 July 1675 or 1676 – 4 May 1734) was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition.

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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S.) was an English soldier and statesman.

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John Michael Rysbrack

Johannes Michel or John Michael Rysbrack, original name Jan Michiel Rijsbrack, often referred to simply as Michael Rysbrack (24 June 1694 – 8 January 1770), was an 18th-century Flemish sculptor, who spent most of his career in England where he was one of the foremost sculptors of monuments, architectural decorations and portraits in the first half of the 18th century.

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John Shackleton

John Shackleton (died 16 March 1767) was a British painter and draughtsman who produced history paintings and portraits. William Kent and John Shackleton are principal Painters in Ordinary.

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Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.

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Kirkthorpe

Kirkthorpe is a village within the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England.

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Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.

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Livorno

Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region, Italy.

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Matthew Brettingham

Matthew Brettingham (1699 – 19 August 1769), sometimes called Matthew Brettingham the Elder, was an 18th-century Englishman who rose from modest origins to supervise the construction of Holkham Hall, and become one of the best-known architects of his generation. William Kent and Matthew Brettingham are 18th-century English architects and British neoclassical architects.

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National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London.

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Oatlands Palace

Oatlands Palace is a former Tudor and Stuart royal palace which took the place of the former manor (of the village of Oatlands near Weybridge, Surrey. Little remains of the original building, so excavations of the palace took place in 1964 to rediscover its extent. The four-star Oatlands Park Hotel now occupies the site where the post-Commonwealth Oatlands mansion (Oatlands House) once stood.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

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Peter Scheemakers

Peter Scheemakers or Pieter Scheemaeckers II or the Younger (10 January 1691 – 12 September 1781) was a Flemish sculptor who worked for most of his life in London. William Kent and Peter Scheemakers are portraits of William Shakespeare.

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Pope Alexander VIII

Pope Alexander VIII (Alessandro VIII; 22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 1689 to his death in February 1691.

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Prince Frederick's Barge

Prince Frederick's Barge is a British state barge.

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Principal Painter in Ordinary

The title of Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King or Queen of England or, later, Great Britain, was awarded to a number of artists, nearly all mainly portraitists. William Kent and Principal Painter in Ordinary are principal Painters in Ordinary.

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Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

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Raynham Hall

Raynham Hall is a country house in Norfolk, England.

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Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork, (25 April 1694 – 4 December 1753) was a British architect and noble often called the "Apollo of the Arts" and the "Architect Earl". William Kent and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington are British neoclassical architects.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kent

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See also

English Landscape Garden designers

English landscape and garden designers

People from Bridlington

Portraits of William Shakespeare

Principal Painters in Ordinary

References