![]() This "natural" style was to define the "English garden" until modern times. This combined style, of the formal with the informal, exemplified by brick paths, herbaceous borders, and with plants such as lilies, lupins, delphiniums and lavender, was in contrast to the formal bedding schemes favoured by the previous generation in the 19th century. ![]() The "Lutyens-Jekyll" garden had hardy shrubbery and herbaceous plantings within a structural architecture of stairs and balustraded terraces. It was the beginning of a professional partnership that would define the look of many Lutyens country houses. In 1896 he began work on a house for Jekyll at Munstead Wood near Godalming, Surrey. During this work, he met the garden designer and horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll. He began his own practice in 1888, his first commission being a private house at Crooksbury, Farnham, Surrey. For many years he worked from offices at 29 Bloomsbury Square, London.Īrchitectural career Private practice It was here that he first met Sir Herbert Baker. After college he joined the Ernest George and Harold Peto architectural practice. Lutyens studied architecture at South Kensington School of Art, London, from 1885 to 1887. He was named after a friend of his father, the painter and sculptor Edwin Henry Landseer. His sister, Mary Constance Elphinstone Lutyens (1868–1951), wrote novels under her married name of Mrs George Wemyss. Lutyens was born in Kensington, London, the tenth of thirteen children of Mary Theresa Gallwey (1832/33–1906) from Killarney, Ireland, and Captain Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens (1829–1915), a soldier and painter. He was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1933. Many of his works were inspired by Indian architecture. In collaboration with Sir Herbert Baker, he was also the main architect of several monuments in New Delhi such as the India Gate he also designed Viceroy's House, which is now known as the Rashtrapati Bhavan. In recognition of his contribution, New Delhi is also known as " Lutyens' Delhi". Lutyens played an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi, which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India. The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century". In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. From 1840 he suffered from depression and alcoholism which led him to refuse the Presidency of the Royal Academy in 1865.Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA ( / ˈ l ʌ t j ə n z/ LUT-yənz 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944 ) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He also produced illustrations for Sir Walter Scott, whom he first met in 1824, and sculpted the lions at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, 1859-66. He painted portraits and historical subjects but is best known for his animal pictures, particularly his stag painting the 'Monarch of the Glen' of 1851. He soon received popular acclaim and, being Queen Victoria's favourite painter, was knighted in 1850. Studied first under his father and then, from 1815, under Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) at the Royal Academy Schools. Son of the engraver John Landseer (1769-1852). ![]() Email: artist/maker: Sir Edwin Henry Landseerīorn: 1802, UK, England, London Died: 1873, London
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