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Masters of their Craft - The Art, Architecture and Garden Design of the Nesfields (Paperback)
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Masters of their Craft - The Art, Architecture and Garden Design of the Nesfields (Paperback)
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In this informative volume, Dr Shirley Rose Evans explores the
lives of two of the most prominent designers of the nineteenth
century, designers who have left their distinctive mark on
buildings and gardens throughout the British Isles. William Andrews
Nesfield and William Eden Nesfield, father and son, were inspired
by the beauty and romance of the past, and both played important
roles in the nineteeth-century revivals of the Jacobean,
Renaissance and Gothic styles. The Nesfields produced horticultural
and architectural designs for wealthy and influential landowners,
winning important public commissions at Kew Gardens and the Prince
Consort's Kensington museum complex. Shirley Rose Evans covers the
education of both men and the evolution of their aesthetic
sensibilities in detail. William Andrews Nesfield's early life in
Durham, his military training and his travels in Canada and Europe
fed his fascination with Renaissance proportion and the
pre-Revolutionary French parterre-de-broderie, a design of
intricate and highly artificial bedding that was to become his
signature. His son flourished in the artistic milieu in which he
was raised, but his main passion was for Gothic detailing. Both
were highly accomplished painters, and Nesfield Senior's
watercolours were lauded by John Ruskin. This illustrated volume
will be of great interest to enthusiasts of the remarkable work of
the Nesfields in particular, or of Victorian design in general. Dr
Shirley Rose Evans taught for many years in Shropshire, but she and
her husband now live in Cornwall. The Nesfields have been the
subject of her research for many years and she has written and
spoken about them extensively. Dr Evans has also been involved in
the conservation and restoration projects of prominent gardens
including those at Regent's Park in London, working closely with
The Royal Parks agency, and at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.
"At last we have a definitive study of the most influential
landscape gardener of the Victorian period. Shirley Rose Evans'
brilliant monograph combines meticulous scholarship with analytical
site investigation to establish Nesfield as a practitioner of rare
innovation." Professor Timothy Mowl, F.S.A., Professorial Research
Fellow in History of Architecture & Designed Landscapes,
Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham. "Shirley
Rose Evans' long-awaited study of the Nesfields launches them into
the limelight at last; her warm-hearted and colourful family saga
of war and peace, of dutiful soldiering unleashed into passions for
watercolours, decorative gardening and architecture reveals the
humanity of these Victorian taste-makers." Jane Brown, author of
"The Pursuit of Paradise, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown 1716-83" and
"A History of the Garden at Buckingham Palace."
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