William Kent: Artist, Architect and Garden Designer by Caroline Knight
William Kent trained as an artist before spending ten years in Italy, where he studied painting, classical buildings and Italian gardens. As well as painting ceilings for Chiswick House and Kensington Palace, he worked as an architect, garden designer and interior decorator, and designed some impressive pieces of furniture. His gardens at Rousham (Oxfordshire) and Stowe (Buckinghamshire) are the finest surviving examples of the new landscape garden.?
Caroline Knight is an architectural historian, trained at the Courtauld and specialising in 16th to 18th century English and Scottish architecture.
Hall opens at 10:00 for a 10:45 start. Costs is £8:00 for non members of The Arts Society, Havering
The New Windmill Hall, St Mary’s Lane, Upminster, Essex RM14 2QH
Tue 12 Apr 2022