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William Gilpin (priest)

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William Gilpin (4 June 1724 – 5 April 1804) was an English artist, Anglican cleric, schoolmaster and author, best known as one of the originators of the idea of the picturesque. [1]

42 relations: Aesthetics, Alexander Cozens, Aquatint, Bodleian Library, Boldre, Caroline Anne Southey, Cheam, Cumberland, Garden History Society, George III of the United Kingdom, Grongar Hill, Hampshire, Horace Walpole, Hugh Latimer, Jane Austen, John Dyer, John Heaviside Clark, John Wycliffe, Josias Rogers, Landscape, New Forest, Nicholas Crane, Northanger Abbey, Painting, Picturesque, Pride and Prejudice, Rhode Island, Richard Payne Knight, Sawrey Gilpin, Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet, Stowe, Buckinghamshire, The Queen's College, Oxford, The Reverend, Thomas Cranmer, Thomas Gray, Thomas Johnes, Thomas Pennant, Thomas Rowlandson, Tintern Abbey, William Combe, William Mason (poet), William Sawrey Gilpin.

Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

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Alexander Cozens

Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Russia.

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Aquatint

Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe.

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Boldre

Boldre is a village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire.

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Caroline Anne Southey

Caroline Anne Southey (1786–1854), was an English poet and second wife of Robert Southey.

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Cheam

Cheam is a large suburban village in the London Borough of Sutton, England, at the southern boundary of Greater London where it meets Surrey.

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Cumberland

Cumberland is a historic county of North West England that had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974.

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Garden History Society

The Garden History Society was an organisation in the United Kingdom established to study garden history and to protect historic gardens.

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George III of the United Kingdom

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.

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Grongar Hill

Grongar Hill is located in the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire and was the subject of a loco-descriptive poem by John Dyer.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), also known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.

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Hugh Latimer

Hugh Latimer (– 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester before the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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John Dyer

John Dyer (1699 – 15 December 1757) was a painter and Welsh poet who became a priest in the Church of England.

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John Heaviside Clark

John Heaviside Clark (c.1771–1836) was a Scottish aquatint engraver and painter of seascapes and landscapes.

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John Wycliffe

John Wycliffe (also spelled Wyclif, Wycliff, Wiclef, Wicliffe, Wickliffe; 1320s – 31 December 1384) was an English scholastic philosopher, theologian, Biblical translator, reformer, English priest, and a seminary professor at the University of Oxford.

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Josias Rogers

Captain Josias Roberts (1755-24 April 1795), was a British naval officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the campaigns in Grenada and Martinique.

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Landscape

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.

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New Forest

The New Forest is an area of southern England which includes one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily populated south-east of England.

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Nicholas Crane

Nicholas Crane (born 6 May 1954) is an English geographer, explorer, writer and broadcaster.

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Picturesque

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc.

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Richard Payne Knight

(Richard) Payne Knight (11 February 1751 – 23 April 1824) of Downton Castle in Herefordshire, and of 5 Soho Square,History of Parliament biography London, England, was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

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Sawrey Gilpin

Sawrey Gilpin (30 October 1733 – 8 March 1807) was an English animal painter, illustrator, and etcher who specialised in paintings of horses and dogs.

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Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet

Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet (baptised 14 April 1747 – 14 September 1829), author of the Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and The Beautiful (1794), was a Herefordshire landowner who was at the heart of the 'Picturesque debate' of the 1790s.

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Stowe, Buckinghamshire

Stowe is a civil parish and former village about northwest of Buckingham in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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The Queen's College, Oxford

The Queen's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, England.

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The Reverend

The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers.

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Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See.

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Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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Thomas Johnes

Thomas Johnes (1 September 1748 – 23 April 1816) was a Member of Parliament, landscape architect, farmer, printer, writer and social benefactor.

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Thomas Pennant

Thomas Pennant (14 June OS 1726 – 16 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian.

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Thomas Rowlandson

Thomas Rowlandson (13 July 1756 – 21 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation.

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Tintern Abbey

Tintern Abbey (Abaty Tyndyrn) was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on 9 May 1131.

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William Combe

William Combe (25 March 1742 – 19 June 1823) was a British miscellaneous writer.

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William Mason (poet)

William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English divine, poet, amateur draughtsman, author, editor and gardener.

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William Sawrey Gilpin

William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/62 – 4 April 1843) was an English artist and drawing master, and in later life a landscape designer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gilpin_(priest)

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