William Kent: Architect, Designer, Opportunist

The Architects' Journal | September 7, 2006| | Copyright

William Kent: Architect, Designer, Opportunist By Timothy Mowl. Jonathan Cape, 2006. Â£20

William Kent was born in 1685 in Bridlington, Yorkshire, the only son of a prosperous joiner. Ambitious and aspirational, Kent set off in 1709 to join the 'wildly camp' John Tabnan (son of Baroque architect William Tabnan) in Italy, and for the next decade spent more time flattering rich patrons than studying art and architecture.

Mowl presents Kent as a man with a 'lavatorial sense of humour', far better at being obsequious than in copying Italian masters. Near 'illiterate', Kent left few letters, and ...

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