Thomas knight 1697 1764 of wormesley grange herefordshire rector of bewdley and ribbesford worcestershire by his wife ursula nash.
Richard payne knight elgin marbles.
Ellis elgin marbles i.
Keats s ode on a grecian urn is probably most associated with the elgin marbles simply because of benjamin haydon s battle cry against payne knight concerning the marbles.
The elgin marbles b.
His parents were thomas knight a clergyman and his mother his father s onetime servant girl ursula nash.
Critic of the elgin marbles debate.
British museum press 1984 paper 4 95.
Keats s ode on a grecian urn is probably most associated with the elgin marbles simply because of benjamin haydon s battle cry against payne knight concerning the marbles.
1751 1824 english landscape theorist member of the society of dilettanti and connoisseur.
36 colour and 50 black and white illustrations.
In 1814 knight.
Knight was educated at home.
Richard payne 2010 hastings center report 40 3 3 3.
In 1774 he.
As haydon records in his autobiography he observed in them.
He made many trips to italy during his youth collecting coins and antique bronzes.
Thomas andrew knight q.
To them may now be added new information upon knight s reactions to the elgin marbles and his relations with that other noted amateur.
Lo and behold he ends up on the comittee to decide whether or not the british museum should buy them saying he would only offer 15 to 20 000 pounds.
He designed with some initial help from t.
Sir nikolaus pevsner s masterly essay richard payne knight in this journal xxxi 1949 293 320 and more recent writings have illuminated the aesthetic theory of that celebrated english dilettante.
Pritchard downton castle herefs.
Richard payne knight and the elgin marbles controversy the british journal of aesthetics volume 13 issue 1 1 january 1973 pages 69 75 h.
Knight was the grandson of a shropshire ironmaster richard knight whose fortune he inherited.
Then there was richard payne knight who for ten years went around telling people the marbles were second rate and not even greek but of the roman period he was wrong.
He served as a member of parliament for leominster 1780 84 and for ludlow 1784 1806.
Knight richard payne 1750 1824 numismatist born in 1750 was the eldest son of the rev.
The union of the truth of nature and ideal beauty a view repeated with variations 67.
