Humphry Repton

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English person garden designer landscape designer person

Humphry Repton was a prominent late 18th- and early 19th-century English landscape designer known for popularizing the picturesque style and for his influential "Red Books" of illustrated garden and estate plans.

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English person → garden designer → landscape designer → person →
activeYearsEnd	1816 →
activeYearsStart	1788 →
birthCountry	Kingdom of Great Britain →
birthDate	1752-04-21 →
birthPlace	Bury St Edmunds →
deathDate	1818-03-24 →
deathPlace	Hare Street, Essex →
designApproach	combination of practical landscaping and picturesque aesthetics →
designedFor	country houses → estates →
education	Norwich Grammar School →
employerOrClient	British aristocracy → landed gentry in England →
familyName	Repton →
fieldOfWork	garden design → landscape architecture →
genre	landscape design treatise →
givenName	Humphry →
influenced	19th-century landscape gardening in Britain →
influencedBy	Lancelot "Capability" Brown →
innovation	use of before-and-after overlays in Red Books →
knownFor	Red Books of landscape and garden designs → popularizing the picturesque style in landscape design → successor to Capability Brown in English landscape gardening →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	picturesque →
name	Humphry Repton →
nationality	British → English →
notableWork	Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening → Red Books → Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening →
numberOfChildren	4 →
occupation	author → landscape designer → landscape gardener →
placeOfBurial	Aylsham, Norfolk →
residence	Hare Street, Essex → Norfolk →
spouse	Mary Clarke →
workedOn	Blaise Castle estate grounds → Brighton Pavilion grounds → Endsleigh (Devon) grounds → Harewood House grounds (proposals and alterations) → Kensington Palace gardens (proposals) → Sheringham Park → Woburn Abbey gardens →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Knowsley Hall →	hasLandscapeDesigner
Lancelot "Capability" Brown →	influenced
Humphry Repton →	name