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Hace 2 días · BPT senior curator Amy Frost added: “William Beckford’s obsession with collecting objects and building towers was funded by his involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. “This means that the creation of Beckford’s Tower and the collection within it was all underpinned by the exploitation and suffering of thousands of enslaved people.
Hace 2 días · It said that bringing the story of William Beckford’s complex and controversial life to a wider contemporary audience has been fundamental to the project. "[His] wealth gave Beckford immense privilege and power, which he used to collect and commission precious art and objects, and to create influential buildings and landscapes," the trust said.
Hace 1 día · As Perry Gauci has shown, one prominent 18th-century politician, William Beckford, who was both an MP and Lord Mayor of London, had to battle hard in 1761 to retain his seat in the City of London, amid criticisms from the Livery that he had neglected them in favour of Parliament. At a meeting of the Livery in advance of election day, Beckford ...
Hace 3 días · Beckford's Tower will also be highlighting founder William Beckford's role in the transatlantic slave trade. The former owner, who died in 1844, had been famed as a pioneering gothic novelist and ...
Hace 3 días · En una gran subasta en Strawberry Hill, la vivienda de Walpole, en 1842, el busto fue adquirido por el coleccionista William Beckford y posteriormente se perdió su rastro.
Hace 4 días · 'Yesterday', wrote William Beckford in March 1819, 'the Calf ushered into my room, when I least expected it, Sweetness in person [Philip Wyatt, architect son of James Wyatt]—more hirsute, bearded and baboon-like than the fantastic faces one can see on coconuts; very amiable, very thin, pretty poor I don't doubt, but bursting with ...
Hace 4 días · In 1762 and again in 1769 that bold citizen, William Beckford, a friend of the great Chatham, was Lord Mayor. He was descended from a Maidenhead tailor, one of whose sons made a fortune in Jamaica. At Westminster School he had acquired the friendship of Lord Mansfield and a rich earl.
