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

Bogart) Beckford, William, writer, art collector: biographical informa- tion, 32– 33 owners, 30; Lyndhurst, 23, 37; possible architect of Fonthill. 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. He used his wealth to indulge his passion for collecting, landscape gardening, and architecture. Beckford's Tower is a striking neo-classical monument designed for William Beckford, a writer, collector, and patron of the arts. Nature, history, science, politics, society, and the arts were developed and popularized. William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts. The landscape and architectural designs of this new mode are grouped under the London, 1749-76, various architects, Horace Walpole patron; Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1796-1813, James Wyatt archtitect, William Beckford patron. In 1822 Beckford sold Fonthill and came to Bath, to a fashionable house in Lansdown Crescent. Of the landscape around Salisbury and the books he published on the history of But it was another local patron, William Beckford, described by Byron as and engaged him to paint the gothic folly he was building at Fonthill Abbey. Genesis and evolution of Fonthill Abbey' in Architectural History, XXIII ( 1980), pp. Vilified publicly as a paedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he amassed works of art fit for a. Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory. The volume on the reception of William Beckford is part of the Project's John Wilton-Ely is Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull (Department of History of Art). Here Beckford built a gigantic 300 foot tower, enlarged the garden, and spent twenty years amassing a huge collection of object d'art; in 1823 it was had an aptitude for grandiose landscape gardening, and he was an author of considerable merit. Hoppner, John (British, 1758–1810) | Turner, Joseph Mallord William (British, 1775–1851) | West, Benjamin (American, 1738–1820). September 15, 1796: ”William Beckford, Esq. Some new, some old, some not yet; but close to being published! From his Jamaican sugar plantations obliged him to sell Fonthill in 1822. English architect chiefly remembered for his Romantic country houses, especially the extraordinary Gothic Revival Fonthill Abbey.