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Price resided at Foxley, after his marriage in 1746. Benjamin Stillingfleet was a frequent visitor to a cottage near the house, and took up botany there. Price and Stillingfleet together sought out picturesque landscape, and from 1757 a plan to develop the estate proceeded. The fashioning of the
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who was Price's second cousin on his mother's side. Hamilton suggests that the friendship with Price was significant for Gainsborough, while the Beaufort family connection could be "serendipitous", but again Price may have brought the couple together.
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to Price. They were from a tour of North Wales in 1759, which Price took with Stillingfleet, following their respective interests in landscape and botany. Price paid particular attention to waterfalls. Some of these drawings were later engraved by
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from a drawing made on the way by Price. The expedition is now considered innovative, an early example of the "picturesque tour". A tradition of British visits to Chamonix was established, for example documented in the 1767 visit of
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In Geneva, Price took part in the "Common Room" group of expatriate Britons running amateur dramatics in 1740–1, supplying incidental music and painting scenery. Besides Windham and Stillingfleet,
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Foxley estate is largely attributed to Robert Price, and secondarily to his son Uvedale. The "irregular but easy paths leading up to viewpoints" mentioned in the
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Literary Life and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfleet: Several of which Have Never Before Been Published. Illustrated with Plates
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painting in Price's collection. A broader use of the "Common Room" term is for a classical culture study group that included
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Sold by the Price family in 1855, the iconic "picturesque" landscaped estate at Foxley has returned to the normal
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Illustrations in a pamphlet recording the 1741 alpine expedition and a sequel. It was published as
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and Dughet. The Price family were good customers of his, and lent paintings for him to engrave.
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Some of the group, including Price, with Pococke and Walter Chetwynd (died 1786, the Fellow of
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by F. I. McCarthy announced the attribution to Price of 18 drawings in the collection of the
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who was there to teach music to army officers. Price belonged to the musical circle around
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are now attributed to Richard, who used a "triangle and plummet" to equalise gradients.
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and his wife Anne Somerset, daughter of Lord Arthur Somerset who was the second son of
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The Chetwynds of Ingestre: Being a History of that Family from a Very Early Date
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Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal
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The Baronetage of England, revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); Baetjer, Katharine (2009).
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British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875
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An Account of the Glaciers or Ice Alps in Savoy in two letters
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Smith of Warwick: Francis Smith, Architect and Master-builder
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In 1743 the engraver Joseph Wood published an etching from a
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An essay comparing German and Italian music, published in
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with his brother and tutor. There was an orchestra led by
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was a major contributor to the plays and pantomimes, with
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Some newly discovered drawings by Robert Price of Foxley
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Kassler, Jamie C. (2001). "Stillingfleet, Benjamin".
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Price married in 1746 Sarah Barrington, daughter of
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Robert Price, engraving after a portrait of 1761 by
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Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque
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Longmans, Green and Company. p. 173. 380:. They had seven sons and three daughters. 39:, was an art patron, and was the father of 403:. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 42. 217:Price encountered the artist and musician 1207: 1205: 1009:Hughes, I. D. "Stillingfleet, Benjamin". 577:Chetwynd-Stapylton, Henry Edward (1892). 340:, and some settings of operatic fragment. 1064:. Oxford University Press. p. 200. 849:The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 378:John Barrington, 1st Viscount Barrington 225:, which included also Stillingfleet and 206:from 1741, a series of engravings after 1190:. Imperial College London. p. 46. 1121:. Imperial College London. p. 42. 1083: 1081: 1012:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 979:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 564:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.26777 389: 138:Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington 1138: 1136: 636: 626: 467: 465: 1315:People educated at Winchester College 927: 925: 107:. In Rome they took art lessons from 7: 1218:. 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Index


Thomas Gainsborough
Herefordshire
Uvedale Price
picturesque

Bartholomew Dandridge
Uvedale Tomkyns Price
Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort
Winchester College
Grand Tour
Geneva
William Windham
Benjamin Stillingfleet
Richard Pococke
Giovanni Battista Busiri
Andrea Basili
Richard Aldworth
George Hervey
en travesti
Thomas Dampier
Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington
Gaspard Fritz
King's College, Cambridge
Chamonix
Mer de Glace
Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
Andrew Lawrence
William Hogarth
Thomas Gainsborough

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