Richard Payne Knight Elgin Marbles

He made many trips to italy during his youth collecting coins and antique bronzes.

Richard payne knight elgin marbles.

36 colour and 50 black and white illustrations. 1751 1824 english landscape theorist member of the society of dilettanti and connoisseur. 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 designed with some initial help from t.

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. Knight was educated at home. Richard payne 2010 hastings center report 40 3 3 3. His parents were thomas knight a clergyman and his mother his father s onetime servant girl ursula nash.

Critic of the elgin marbles debate. 1772 8 a picturesque composition in the gothic style though neo classicism dominated the interiors in which symmetry was avoided in the overall planning but not in the individual rooms. 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. Richard payne knight and the elgin marbles controversy the british journal of aesthetics volume 13 issue 1 1 january 1973 pages 69 75 h.

He served as a member of parliament for leominster 1780 84 and for ludlow 1784 1806. In 1774 he. The elgin marbles b. Thomas knight 1697 1764 of wormesley grange herefordshire rector of bewdley and ribbesford worcestershire by his wife ursula nash.

Richard payne knight 11 february 1751 23 april 1824 of downton castle in herefordshire and of 5 soho square london england was a classical scholar connoisseur archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery. To them may now be added new information upon knight s reactions to the elgin marbles and his relations with that other noted amateur. Ellis elgin marbles i. British museum press 1984 paper 4 95.

Knight richard payne 1750 1824 numismatist born in 1750 was the eldest son of the rev. Thomas andrew knight q. 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. V f r s was his younger brother.

As haydon records in his autobiography he observed in them. Pritchard downton castle herefs. 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.