Richard Payne Knight

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Richard Payne Knight

British painter

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Western architecture
From the 17th to the 19th century
…was evolved and publicized by Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price. Already Knight had given architectural form to his ideas of rugged, irregular, and apparently “natural” composition in Downton Castle, Herefordshire, near Ludlow (1774–78). This was the first irregularly planned castellated (castle-style) building with a Classical interior. It inspired a…
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…was evolved and publicized by Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price. Already Knight had given architectural form to his ideas of rugged, irregular, and apparently “natural” composition in Downton Castle, Herefordshire, near Ludlow (1774–78). This was the first irregularly planned castellated (castle-style) building with a Classical interior. It inspired a…
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Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet
…the writer-artist William Gilpin and Richard Payne Knight, one of the chief aestheticians of the Picturesque movement in landscaping.
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…the writer-artist William Gilpin and Richard Payne Knight, one of the chief aestheticians of the Picturesque movement in landscaping.
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