Uvedale Price

British landowner and theorist of the Picturesque (1747-1829) · Architects · Died at 82

Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet, writer of the Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and The Beautiful (1794), was a Herefordshire landowner who was at the heart of the 'Picturesque debate' of the 1790s.

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Portrait (c. 1799), oil on canvas, of Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet (1747-1829), by Sir Thomas Lawrence, (1769-1830), 76.2 x 63.5 cm

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Architects born in the 1740s 6

Marcin Knackfus38.7 of 100 Francesco Camporesi37.7 of 100 Manuel Caetano de Sousa39.1 of 100

Stanisław Zawadzki37.3 of 100

Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe39.6 of 100

Cirilo Volkmar Machado36.5 of 100