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

Military History · Arts and Entertainments · Landscape and Property · Advice William Thomas Beckford (1 October 1760 – 2 May 1844), usually known as William Beckford consisting of £1 million in cash, land at Fonthill This allowed him to indulge his interest in art and architecture, as well as writing. William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts, ISBN 1781554838, 9781781554838, Book Finder, Compare Book Prices at 130 book stores. Landscape designer and composer of music (and incidentally a lively singer), He then hired England's foremost architect, James Wyatt, to build a medieval abbey for him to live in. The Shaping of Art and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America. William Beckford's Fonthill Abbey. 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. Books, furniture and objets d'art and had housed it all in a country mansion the size of a cathedral. "Benjamin West and William Beckford: Some Projects for Fonthill": Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. Turner's Wessex: Architecture and Ambition A collaborative project with Turner scholar Ian Warrell, the display explores the artist's relationship with the local landscape. Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Nature, history, science, politics, society, and the arts were developed and popularized. The landscape and architectural designs of this new mode are grouped under the London, 1749-76, various architects, Horace Walpole patron; Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1796-1813, James Wyatt archtitect, William Beckford patron. September 15, 1796: ”William Beckford, Esq. Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory. Bogart) Beckford, William, writer, art collector: biographical informa- tion, 32– 33 owners, 30; Lyndhurst, 23, 37; possible architect of Fonthill.