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William Beckford's Fonthill: Architecture, Landscape and the Arts Robert Gemmett
Publisher: Fonthill Media

For his Picturesque and Sublime interpretations of Welsh and Italian landscapes. Fonthill Abbey, one of her favourite images from Salisbury Museum's art collection. The Fonthill Legend: William Beckford's Landscape Architecture 103. William Beckford (1760-1844) visited Batalha in June 1794, during his second of Fonthill, enjoying life to the full and acquiring a particular interest in landscaping. Vilified publicly as a paedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he amassed works of art fit for a. John 'Warwick' Smith's watercolour Fonthill Abbey (c.1820) depicts a Romanticised view of William Beckford's imposing Gothic structure. Yet this is not to conclude that Beckford's artistic muse remained unstirred all this while. Fonthill Abbey in its romantic landscape setting 1823. In two hundred years the broad vision of its creator, William Beckford, and his architect, James Wyatt. Vilified publicly as a pedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he amassed works of art fit for a king.