ABOUT WILLIAM KENT

William Kent (c. 1685 12 April 1748) was an eminent English architect,
landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.

Kent's career began as a sign and coach painter who was encouraged to
study art, design and architecture by his employer.

Kent started practising as an architect relatively late, in the 1730s.He is

better remembered as an architect of the revived Palladian style in England.

As he rose through the royal architectural establishment, the Board of Works,

Kent applied this style to several public buildings in London, for which
Burlington's patronage secured him the commissions: the Royal Mews at
Charing Cross , the Treasury buildings in Whitehall , and the Horse Guards
building in Whitehall .
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As a landscape designer, Kent was one of the originators of the English landscape garden, a style of
"natural" gardening that revolutionised the laying out of gardens and estates.

Kent introduced the Palladian style of architecture into England with the villa at Chiswick House, and
for originating the 'natural' style of gardening known as the English landscape garden at Chiswick,
Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, and Rousham House in Oxfordshire.

His design drawings are not detailed plans, but poetic evocations of the landscape effects he was
attempting to achieve.

Kents gardens could be places of activity and good fellowship, or places of reflection and solitude.

Carefully crafted vistas lead the eye out beyond the garden into the surrounding countryside. He
designed over fifty garden buildings which were positioned to act as picturesque focal points for
views and also as places from which to contemplate the garden.

His buildings vary from sober copies of ancient buildings to wild flights of fancy, from pyramids,
triumphal arches and Chinese kiosks to grottoes and artificial ruins.
WORKS
Temple of Venus, Stowe.
Temple of British Worthies, Stowe.
The Temple of Ancient Virtue, Stowe.
Holkham Hall North Front.
Holkham hall Marble Hall.
Obelisk, Holkham Hall.
Badminton House.
Chiswick House The Gallery.
Holkham Hall North Front. TEMPLE OF VENUS,STOWE

The Temple of Ancient Virtue Temple of British Worthies,