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John S. Muller, A General Prospect of Vaux Hall Gardens, Shewing at one View the disposition of the whole Gardens, ca. 1715–92, hand-colored engraving on wove paper (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection).

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From the Paul Mellon Centre:

Public Lecture Course | The Artist and the Garden
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, Thursdays, 27 September — 25 October 2018

Registration opens on 20 August 2018

The Artist and the Garden will explore the multifarious ways in which the artist has impacted upon our understanding and perception of the British garden from the seventeenth century to the present day. Through a series of related but discrete talks, speakers will explore not only the ways in which artists depicted gardens but how so many of them were active as gardeners themselves, whether they were formulating grand landscape designs or cultivating private domestic spaces. The course will feature lectures from Christopher Woodward, Director of the Garden Museum, noted academics such as Joy Sleeman and Stephen Daniels, as well as landscape architect Todd Longstaff-Gowan.

The course meets every Thursday for five weeks from 27 September to 25 October 2018, 6.30–8.30pm (6.30–7.00 Drinks, 7.00–8.30 Lecture and Discussion). The course is open to all and free to attend, but enrolment is required. Registration will open at 10am on 20 August. In the meantime please read the Frequently Asked Questions for information on changes to our enrollment and booking procedures.

27 September — Introduction, with Christopher Woodward
4 October — Repton and the Landscaped Garden, with Stephen Daniels
11 October — Country Gardens, with Martin Postle
18 October — Land Art, with Nicholas Alfrey and Joy Sleeman
25 October — Artist in Focus: Eileen Hogan, with Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

From The Gerogian Group:

Laura Mayer | ‘All around Is Fairy Ground’: Repton and the Regency Garden
Keats House, Hampstead, London, 6 September 2018

The Georgian Group is holding an evening lecture at Keats House, Hampstead, to celebrate the bicentenary of Humphry Repton (1752–1818). The lecture will be given by Dr. Laura Mayer, who has published extensively on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landscape history and is a former winner of the prestigious Gardens Trust Annual Essay Prize.

Repton ambitiously named himself as Capability Brown’s successor and was responsible for developing a new landscape aesthetic, which he termed ‘Ornamental Gardening’. Known for his famous Red Books, illustrated to help his clients visualise the pleasurable potential of their properties, Repton did much to encourage an appreciation of landscape aesthetics amongst the rising middle classes. Dr. Mayer’s lecture will trace his designs from their Picturesque beginnings to the progressive Gardenesque style.

Thursday, 6 September, at Keats House, 10 Keats Grove, Hampstead, London NW3 2RR. Doors open at 6pm; the lecture starts at 6.30. Tickets are £20 and include wine. This event is open to Georgian Group members and non-members.