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William Beckford’s vast Gothic revival country house, Fonthill Abbey. The entrance door was 30 foot high and to enhance the sense of scale, he employed a dwarf as a doorman. Studio of Canaletto, Venice: The Piazzetta from the Molo, ca. 1740, London, National Gallery.
William Beckford. William Thomas Beckford ( Fonthill, Wiltshire, 1 oktober 1760 – “Lansdown Hill”, landgoed bij Bath, 2 mei 1844) was een excentrieke Engelse schrijver, kunstverzamelaar, architect, bouwmeester en politicus.
25 de abr. de 2013 · William Beckford (1760–1844) is known chiefly as a collector, bibliophile, Orientalist, and author of the Gothic novel Vathek. In his early life, he was also an inveterate traveller, and the published and unpublished writing he produced on the basis of his travels vastly outweighed his fictional output, but has received surprisingly little ...
30 de out. de 2020 · William Beckford was born in 1760 at either the Beckfords’ London house in King Square, now known as Soho Square, or at Fonthill Splendens, a Palladian mansion on their Wiltshire estate. He was the only legitimate child of William Beckford (1709–70), known as Alderman Beckford, and Maria Hamilton (1725–98), the granddaughter of James Hamilton (1661–1734), 6th Earl of Abercorn.
His society bemusedly tolerated most eccentrics — even nouveau riche ones — but they chose to ostracize this remarkable personality, dubbing him "The Fool of Fonthill." Beckford's father, twice Lord Mayor of London, was the richest man in England, with extensive holdings in the cloth industry, property, government bonds, and sugar plantations.
With the incredible news that William Beckford’s long-lost grotto tunnel is found, Bath Preservation Trust now plans to restore historic feature. The paddocks surrounding a famous Bath landmark are being restored to enable visitors to experience a glimpse of William Beckford’s gardens as they were presented almost 200 years ago – and as part of the restoration works the long-lost grotto ...
William Thomas Beckford (* 1. Oktober 1760 in Fonthill, Wiltshire oder London; [1] † 2. Mai 1844 in Bath) war ein englischer Millionär und Exzentriker, hauptsächlich bekannt als Schriftsteller und Baumeister. Darüber hinaus war er Kritiker, Sammler, Politiker und reicher Sklavenhalter. Sein Roman Vathek beeinflusste Byron, Poe, Carl ...
