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Rotunda at Stowe Gardens (1730–1738) The paintings of Claude Lorrain inspired Stourhead and other English landscape gardens.. The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (French: Jardin à l'anglaise, Italian: Giardino all'inglese, German: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Portuguese: Jardim inglês, Spanish: Jardín inglés), is a style of ...
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The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
[1] [2] He taught himself to paint pictures, at first portraits and animals; he also painted posters for Wombwell's menagerie. [3] In 1838 Cole's painting The Farm Yard was shown at the Society of British Artists. [1] When he was 30 he changed his focus to landscapes and received instruction from John Wilson and started exhibiting in 1840.
Alfred William Parsons RA (2 December 1847 – 16 January 1920) was an English artist: illustrator, landscape painter and garden designer. [1] [2] [3]Alfred Parsons was well known for his English landscape paintings and fine botanical illustrations which brought him into contact with William Robinson, for whom he provided illustrations.
This English Garden Is a Perennial Parade TK Rachel Warne Landscape designer Jo Thompson could tell the overgrown, shabby gardens surrounding the 19th-century Ladham House had once been well loved.
Many of his pictures were used to illustrate Some English Gardens (1904) by the famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll [5] and Italian Gardens (1907) which Elgood wrote himself. In 1908 he settled in an old 16th-century timbered house called "Knockwood" in Tenterden , Kent, where he designed and constructed his own formal garden in the grounds.
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