Though Royal Gardener to both Georges I and II and designer of gardens at Kensington Palace, Houghton and many other illustrious estates, Bridgeman’s geometric taste and works were mostly obliterated by later Brownian landscaping. The absence of extant gardens and landscapes is fortunately balanced by a considerable surviving corpus of plans.
Charles Bridgeman (c.1685-1738): A Landscape Architect of the Eighteenth Century
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