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Born July 5, 1838
Died May 17, 1935 (aged 96)
Subjects Of Study garden • landscape architecture
Jacques Wirtz
Belgian landscape designer
Le Nôtre, André
André Le Nôtre
French landscape architect
John Claudius Loudon
Scottish landscape architect
Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll
English landscape architect
Calvert Vaux
British architect
Park at Petworth House, West Sussex, Eng., landscaped by Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, c. 1751–57
Lancelot Brown
English landscape architect
Sir Uvedale Price, portrait by an unknown artist; in the British Museum
Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet
British landscape designer
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Frederick Law Olmsted
American landscape architect
William Kent
William Kent
British architect
“Black Sun,” black tamba granite sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, 1960–63; in a private garden
Isamu Noguchi
American sculptor
Repton, portrait by an unknown artist
Humphry Repton
British landscape designer
Downing, Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson Downing
American horticulturalist and landscape architect
Daniel Marot
French architect and designer
Burle Marx, 1954
Roberto Burle Marx
Brazilian landscape architect
Sōami
Japanese artist
François-Joseph Bélanger
French architect, artist, landscape designer, and engineer
Griffin, Walter Burley
Walter Burley Griffin
American architect and city planner
Shenstone, detail of an oil painting by E. Alcock, 1750; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Shenstone
English connoisseur
Jens Jensen
American landscape architect
Pirro Ligorio
Italian architect