"William Kent: Architect, Designer, Painter, Gardener, 1685-1748" Vanity Fair and determination

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From 1943 to 1946 he served as United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union

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Pebble Beach Golf Links was just a year old when esteemed architect William Herbert Fowler recommended that the petite par-3 7th hole was unfit for championship play

"William Kent: Architect, Designer, Painter, Gardener, 1685-1748" Vanity Fair and determinationWILSON, Michael I[276] pp. Routledge & Kegan Paul198410" x 7 3 4" Scroll Down for (10) Additional Scans: William Kent (c. 1685 12 April 1748) was an eminent English architect, landscape architect, painter and furniture designer of the early 18th century. He began his career as a painter, and became Principal Painter in Ordinary or court painter, but his real talent was for design in various media. Kent introduced the Palladian style of architecture