Richard Payne Knight
Portrait Richard Payne Knights by Thomas Lawrence (circa 1793/1794)
Richard Payne Knight (born February 15, 1750 in Wormesley Grange . Herefordshire , England , † April 23, 1824 in London , England) was a British art connoisseur, collector and amateur archaeologist (member of the Society of Dilettanti ).
Life
His grandfather had become rich with the rise of the iron industry in Shropshire. Richard Payne Knight's father was a clergyman. He was a sickly child and was never sent to university. From 1767 he made several trips to Italy.
Richard Payne Knight is best known for his archaeological and aesthetic writings. Nikolaus Pevsner , art historian and profound expert on the history of architecture, even devoted a separate chapter to him in his book Architecture and Design .
See also: Picturesque
Works
- An analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet. Printed by J. Nichols for P. Elmsly, London 1791.
- Prolegomena ad Homerum. Sive de carminum Homericorum origine, auctore et aetate itemque de priscae linguae progressu et praecoci maturitate. Praefatus est Friedrich Ernst Ruhkopf. Hahn, Leipzig 1816, digitized version .
literature
- Nikolaus Pevsner : architecture and design. From Romanticism to Objectivity (= Studies on the Art of the Nineteenth Century. Special Volume 1971). Changed German edition. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7913-0326-0 , pp. 49-70.
- Frank J. Messmann: Richard Payne Knight. The twilight of virtuosity (= Studies in English Literature. Vol. 89, ISSN 0081-7899 ). Mouton, The Hague et al. 1974.
- Michael Clarke, Nicholas Penny (Eds.): The arrogant connoisseur. Richard Payne Knight, 1751-1824. Essays on Richard Payne Knight. Together with a catalog of works exhibited at the Whitworth Art Gallery . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1982, ISBN 0-7190-0871-9 .
- Andrew Ballantyne: Architecture, landscape and liberty. Richard Payne Knight and the picturesque. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1997, ISBN 0-521-46200-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Payne Knight in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knight, Richard Payne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British art connoisseur, collector and amateur archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1750 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wormesley Grange, Herefordshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1824 |
| Place of death | London , England |