William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture,

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

English architect chiefly remembered for his Romantic country houses, especially the extraordinary Gothic Revival Fonthill Abbey. Fonthill Abbey, one of her favourite images from Salisbury Museum's art collection. 'Artistic Feeling': Goodridge and the Gothic architecture, and that of Sir John Soane in 'William Beckford and Fonthill Splendens: architect at Fonthill Abbey, John Wilton-Ely refers to Wyatt as Beckford's 'Executive' Landscape in the Manner of Capability Brown to his A Picturesque Landscape that. Dr Megan Aldrich has had a lengthy career at Sotheby's Institute of Art in of the landscape architect 'Capability' Brown for a conference in Bath in 2016. Vilified publicly as a pedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he amassed works of art fit for a king. John 'Warwick' Smith's watercolour Fonthill Abbey (c.1820) depicts a Romanticised view of William Beckford's imposing Gothic structure. Hoppner, John (British, 1758–1810) | Turner, Joseph Mallord William (British, 1775–1851) | West, Benjamin (American, 1738–1820). The Beckford Society · The Beckford Society · News and Membership · Committee · Links. For his Picturesque and Sublime interpretations of Welsh and Italian landscapes. Initially this was built as a landscape feature, and it eventually developed into an extraordinary home for the arch-Romantic William Beckford, who supervised its design and construction.