John Harris
John Harris is curator emeritus of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Harris, John
Harris, John
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Description: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
KENT’S TASTES AND INTERESTS before he left for Italy in 1709 are virtually unknown or at best must be left to speculation. Any enlightening JÎ facts and documentation have long vanished. The budding young painter may well have been observant and curious, but the rural Bridlington countryside in the later seventeenth century was a desert as far as...
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.393-409
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00218.015
Description: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
DURING HIS TEN YEARS in Italy, Kent must have amassed a fat portfolio of drawings, not the least those produced when he was in the studio of Giuseppe Chiari...
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.151-158
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00218.006
Description: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
NEARLY ALL THE BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS on William Kent (fig. 1.1) refer to George Vertue’s obituary notice in his diary...
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.27-41
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00218.001
Description: William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
Chronology
PublisherBard Graduate Center
PublisherYale University Press