The first biography of the 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale
Price, showing the key interconnections between his roles as
landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and
scholar. Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the
influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued
that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator
Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be usedas models for the
"improvement of real landscape". His attack on the smooth
certainties of Capability Brown sparked off a public controversy,
drawing in Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton, which became a
cause celebre. This is the first biography of Uvedale Price,
bringing out his contradictory and elusive character and revealing
an astonishing cast of friends and acquaintances, including
Gainsborough, Voltaire, William Wordsworth and ElizabethBarrett
Browning. The book shows how he developed his ideas through
practical experimentation on his own land and buildings and
provides an understanding of the context of Price's practices and
theories and the key interconnections between his roles as
landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and
scholar. CHARLES WATKINS is Professor of Rural Geography,
University of Nottingham; BEN COWELL is Assistant Director,
External Affairs, National Trust.
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