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Born December 31, 1924 • Antwerp • Belgium
Died July 21, 2018 (aged 93) • Belgium
Subjects Of Study garden
Le Nôtre, André
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect
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John Claudius Loudon
Scottish landscape architect
Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll
English landscape architect
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William Robinson
British landscape designer
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted
American landscape architect
William Kent
William Kent
British architect
“Black Sun,” black tamba granite sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, 1960–63; in a private garden
Isamu Noguchi
American sculptor
Park at Petworth House, West Sussex, Eng., landscaped by Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, c. 1751–57
Lancelot Brown
English landscape architect
Repton, portrait by an unknown artist
Humphry Repton
British landscape designer
Sir Uvedale Price, portrait by an unknown artist; in the British Museum
Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet
British landscape designer
Downing, Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson Downing
American horticulturalist and landscape architect
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Daniel Marot
French architect and designer
Burle Marx, 1954
Roberto Burle Marx
Brazilian landscape architect
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Sōami
Japanese artist
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François-Joseph Bélanger
French architect and landscape designer
Griffin, Walter Burley
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and city planner
Shenstone, detail of an oil painting by E. Alcock, 1750; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Shenstone
English connoisseur
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Jens Jensen
American landscape architect
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Pirro Ligorio
Italian architect
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Horace William Shaler Cleveland
American landscape architect