In An English Country Garden – Poet, Painter & Perfection
Humphry Repton in his Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1803) created a fashion for botanics, stressing the use of colour in composing a landscape
Humphry Repton
Painting Paradise: Art of the Garden – Royal Collection Pt 4
The exhibition Painting Paradise: The Art of the Garden at the Queen’s Gallery Buckingham Palace, reveals the garden’s evolution to becoming an earthly paradise
Renaissance to Repton – The Rage for Simplicity
Humphry Repton coined the phrase ‘the rage for simplicity’ because he was in revolt against it, championing profusion, seeking the pleasure abundance can bring