WILLIAM KENT & THE ALLEGORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ROUSHAM HOUSE & STOWE with Gerard Vaughan

Dr Gerard Vaughan will present a stimulating lecture on the 18th century landscape designer, William Kent, and the invention of a new landscape style: Rousham and Stowe.

DR GERARD VAUGHAN is Director of the National Gallery of Victoria and an art historian who wrote his doctoral thesis at Oxford on 18th century taste for the Antique. His research interests are particularly concerned with the history of taste and art collecting in the 18th century and 19th centuries, ranging from neo-classicism to post-impressionism.