Charles Bridgeman

Charles Bridgeman (1690-1738) was an English garden designer in the onset of the naturalistic landscape style. Although he was a key figure in the transition of English garden design from the Anglo-Dutch formality of patterned parterres and avenues to a freer style that incorporated formal, structural and wilderness elements, Bridgeman is a somewhat obscure entity in the history of landscape architecture, his reputation eclipsed by those of his successors, William Kent http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/kent.htm and Lancelot ?Capability? Brown http://www.gardenvisit.com/b/brown1.htm (Jellicoe, et. al., 1986, p.72).

References:

• Amherst, Alicia. (1896). A History of Gardening in England. London: Bernard Quaritch.
• Batey, Mavis, David Lambert. (1990). The English Garden Tour. London: John Murray Ltd.
• Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey, Susan Jellicoe, Patrick Goode and Michael Lancaster. (1986). The Oxford Companion to Gardens. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Strong, Roy. (1992). Royal Gardens. New York: Pocket Books.
• Willis, Peter. (1977; rev. 2002) Charles Bridgemean and the English landscape Gardenhttp://www.psbooks.co.uk/BookDetails.asp?Code=24881&pg=Gardening&ur=C%26H_Gardening_Title.asp%23Nav24881.