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William Kent

1685 - 1748

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William Kent (c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, but his real talent was for design in various media. Kent introduced the Palladian style of architecture into England with the villa at Chiswick House, and also originated the 'natural' style of gardening known as the English landscape garden at Chiswick, Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire, and Rousham House in Oxfordshire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Kent is the 269th most popular architect (down from 251st in 2019), the 2,325th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,912th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, William Kent ranks 269 out of 518. Before him are Édouard André, Kazuyo Sejima, Josef Frank, Aldo van Eyck, Tony Garnier, and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. After him are László Hudec, Miklós Ybl, Pieter Post, Domenico Trezzini, Friedrich August Stüler, and Charles Percier.

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Among people born in 1685, William Kent ranks 15. Before him are Jean-Marc Nattier, Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, John Gay, Edward England, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, and Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Dominikus Zimmermann, Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Farrukhsiyar, George Clifford III, Jacob Theodor Klein, and Francesco Loredan. Among people deceased in 1748, William Kent ranks 11. Before him are Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Johann Gottfried Walther, Johann Nepomuk Karl, Prince of Liechtenstein, Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Ebrahim Afshar. After him are Abul Khair Khan, Aleksei Chirikov, Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Isaac Watts, and Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Kent ranks 2,325 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Crouch (1981), Robert Maynard (1684), Taliesin (518), Geoffrey Hughes (1944), George Frederic Watts (1817), and Sarah Miles (1941). After him are Robert Kerr (1755), John Webster (1578), F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (1782), Charles Kay Ogden (1889), Murray Head (1946), and David Blunkett (1947).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, William Kent ranks 19. Before him are Michael Ventris (1922), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), John Nash (1752), Joseph Paxton (1803), Archibald Leitch (1865), and Glenn Murcutt (1936). After him are Edwin Lutyens (1869), Richard Norman Shaw (1831), Charles Barry (1795), Thomas Telford (1757), Ralph Erskine (1914), and Charles Cameron (1746).

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