The lives of the British architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London, Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 278
an all-round and accomplished artisan towhom nothing seems to have come amiss, but whose veryvariety of accomplishment prevented his being consummatein any one direction.^ 1 His chief excellence showed itself in his internal decorations, inwhich he at times reached an extraordinarily high level. At… … WILLIAM KENT To face p. 224 KENT 22S Kent was born at Rotherham in Yorkshire in 1684, and,in his fourteenth year was apprenticed to a coach-painter ;but after five years of such work, feeling the emotionsof genius, it is Walpole who thus phrases it, he ranaway from his master and came to London.…
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