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In garden and landscape design: 17th- and 18th-century English. …Uvedale Price and the artist-parson William Gilpin, who argued, quite correctly, that the “naturalism” of the Brownians was no less unnatural than the geometric regularity of Le Nôtre’s Versailles and that sudden declivities, rocky chasms, and rotting tree trunks (all ...
William's father and younger brother were both artists, but Gilpin went into the Church, with apparently all the seriousness of which the Augustan age is sometimes mistakenly thought incapable. Taking his B.A. in 1744 and his M.A. in 1748, he was ordained; most of his working life, however, was spent as master of a boy's school, not as a parish clergyman.
William Gilpin is an oddity among the aesthetic philosophers of the eighteenth century. He can scarcely be called a philosopher, even in the eighteenth century’s broader sense, when placed beside Shaftesbury, Burke, or Kant. His works belong in a much more comfortable lower realm, of the travelogue and the light essay.
Jun 4, 1724 - Apr 5, 1804. William Gilpin was an English artist, Anglican cleric, schoolmaster and author. He is best known as a travel writer, and as one of those who originated the idea of the picturesque.
William Gilpin was a watercolourist, vicar and headmaster of Cheam School until 1777. He is notable for being one of the first advocates of the idea of the picturesque.During the summer months, Gilpin travelled around the country, making watercolours and keeping journals in which he crystallised his personal theories about picturesque landscapes.
Walter J. Hipple, Jr.; William Gilpin: His Drawings, Teaching, and Theory of the Picturesque by Carl Paul Barbier, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,
"William Gilpin" published on by null. (1724–1804),is remembered for his influential writings on the picturesque, which did much to form the taste in landscape, art, and the literary treatment of nature in the later 18th cent. and which some have seen as heralds of Romanticism.
