William Kent

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architect furniture designer interior designer landscape architect painter person

William Kent was an influential 18th-century English architect, landscape designer, and painter who helped pioneer the naturalistic English landscape garden style.

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Label	Occurrences
William Kent canonical	25

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architect ⓘ furniture designer ⓘ interior designer ⓘ landscape architect ⓘ painter ⓘ person ⓘ
birthDate	1685-01-01 ⓘ
birthPlace	Bridlington ⓘ England ⓘ Yorkshire ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ
deathDate	1748-04-12 ⓘ
deathPlace	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
designed	Stowe landscape gardens ⓘ surface form: Elysian Fields at Stowe Stowe Gardens ⓘ surface form: Temple of Venus at Stowe cascades and water features at Rousham ⓘ garden buildings at Stowe ⓘ garden layout at Rousham House ⓘ interiors and furniture for Chiswick House ⓘ state rooms at Kensington Palace ⓘ
employer	Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington ⓘ surface form: Lord Burlington
fieldOfWork	architecture ⓘ garden design ⓘ interior design ⓘ landscape architecture ⓘ painting ⓘ
genre	landscape painting ⓘ
influencedBy	Andrea Palladio ⓘ Inigo Jones ⓘ
knownFor	introducing Palladian architecture to England ⓘ pioneering the naturalistic English landscape garden style ⓘ
movement	English landscape garden ⓘ Palladian architecture ⓘ
name	William Kent self-link ⓘ
nationality	English ⓘ
notableWork	Chiswick House ⓘ surface form: Chiswick House gardens Holkham Hall ⓘ Horse Guards Parade ⓘ surface form: Horse Guards, Whitehall Houghton Hall ⓘ surface form: Interiors at Houghton Hall Kensington Gardens ⓘ Stowe landscape gardens ⓘ Treasury buildings, Whitehall ⓘ
occupation	architect ⓘ garden designer ⓘ interior decorator ⓘ landscape designer ⓘ painter ⓘ
patron	Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington ⓘ

Referenced by (25)

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Lancelot "Capability" Brown → influencedBy → William Kent ⓘ

Houghton Hall → interiorDesigner → William Kent ⓘ

Muir Woods National Monument → donatedBy → William Kent ⓘ

Earl of Burlington → patronOf → William Kent ⓘ

subject surface form: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington

Stowe School → hasGroundsDesignedBy → William Kent ⓘ

White Lodge, Richmond, Surrey, England → architect → William Kent ⓘ

Stowe landscape gardens → designedBy → William Kent ⓘ

Claremont Landscape Garden → designedBy → William Kent ⓘ

William Kent → name → William Kent self-link ⓘ

Stowe House → associatedWithArchitect → William Kent ⓘ

Stowe House → associatedWithLandscapeDesigner → William Kent ⓘ

Surveyor of the King’s Works → hasNotableOfficeHolder → William Kent ⓘ

Rousham → hasLandscapeDesigner → William Kent ⓘ

Charles Bridgeman → influenced → William Kent ⓘ

Chiswick House → architect → William Kent ⓘ

Chiswick House → gardenDesigner → William Kent ⓘ

Holkham Hall → architect → William Kent ⓘ

Holkham Hall → landscapeDesigner → William Kent ⓘ

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington → influenced → William Kent ⓘ

Claremont House, Surrey → designedBy → William Kent ⓘ

Kent Hall → namedAfter → William Kent ⓘ

English landscape garden style → hasNotableProponent → William Kent ⓘ

Temple of British Worthies → architect → William Kent ⓘ

Stowe Gardens → hasArchitect → William Kent ⓘ

Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham → workedWith → William Kent ⓘ