William Kent. Designing Georgian Britain
when Britain defined itself as a new nation with the accession of a new Hanoverian Royal Family.
Kent was a polymath, turning his hand to painting, sculpture, architecture, interior decoration, furniture, metalwork, book illustration, theatrical ... travelled throughout the country where he met important figures on the Grand Tour such as Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington, who would become Kent’s best-known patron, securing him a series of careerdefining ... attention. One section of the exhibition will be devoted to Kent’s designs for the new Royal Family including those he produced for Frederick, Prince of Wales’s Royal Barge (1732), Queen Caroline’s Library