Uvedale price picturesque biography death

Picturesque and sublime

Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet baptised 14 April — 14 September , author of the Essay on the Picturesque, As Compared with the Sublime and The Beautiful , was a Herefordshire landowner who was at the heart of the ' Picturesque debate' of the s. Uvedale Price was the eldest son of Robert Price , an amateur artist, by his wife the Hon.

Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford , Price inherited the family estate of Foxley in Yazor in Herefordshire when he came of age in , a few years after the death of his father in and of his grandfather Uvedale Tomkins Price in As a young man Price was a figure on London's social scene, and was once described as the " macaroni of his age," but with his inheritance and his marriage to Lady Caroline Carpenter, youngest daughter of George Carpenter, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel , [ 1 ] he settled down at Foxley to tend to the estate and develop his theories on landscape, as well as equally controversial work on the pronunciation of the Classical languages.

He served as High Sheriff of Herefordshire in , and was created a baronet on 12 February During his life, Price was befriended by Sir George Beaumont and his wife Margaret Beaumont , with whom he corresponded extensively. He was also a lifetime friend of the statesman Charles James Fox as well as being acquainted with William Wordsworth , and in later life, a correspondent of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

He died in aged 82, having finally printed his work on Greek and Latin pronunciation. His only son Robert succeeded as 2nd and last baronet. Price developed his ideas with his close neighbour Richard Payne Knight , whose poem 'The Landscape' was published the same year as Price's Essay delineating his theories on "The Picturesque" as a mode of landscape.

Well before Price's Essay or Knight's poem, however, the term pittoresque was used in early 18th century France to refer to a property of being "in the style of a painter". Pope, in his "Letter to Caryll", brought the word into English as " picturesque " in