William Kent. Architect, Designer, Painter, Gardener, 1685-1748

William Kent. Architect, Designer, Painter, Gardener, 1685-1748.

Wilson, Michael I.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on spine, green and color illustrated dust jacket with off-white lettering, x, 276 pp., bw illustrations. VG- (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly scuffed/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.) / VG- (DJ is sunned/edgeworn/scuffed/toned and price-clipped; there is a price sticker on DJ. Item #196469
ISBN: 9780710099839

"William Kent is one of the most important figures in the history of English eighteenth-century art. Yet to many people who are otherwise well acquainted with that period he remains a shadowly figure, and the enormous scope and range of his work is little appreciated. Michael Wilson summarizes his life and achievement in a readable style, and has produced an account of Kent's remarkable career which is attractive to the non-specialist and the expert alike. Kent was active in many fields - painting, architecture, design and decoration, landscape gardening - and was a friend of leading figures such as Lord Burlington (for whom he decorated Chiswick House) and Alexander Pope. Michael Wilson presents a broad overall survey of Kent's work together with narrative account of his life, communicating vividly to the reader the complicated manner in which the two intereacted upon each other, and conveying a sense of the continuous momentum of Kent's career." - dust jacket description.