Claude-Henri Watelet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Claude-Henri Watelet

French writer

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1718

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 12-Jan-1786

Profession: writer, playwright, Encyclopédistes, painter, art collector

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Claude-Henri Watelet (28 August 1718 – 12 January 1786) was a rich French fermier-général who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens.
Watelet's inherited privilege of farming taxes in the Orléanais left him free to pursue his avocations, art and literature and gardens.
His Essai sur les jardins, 1774, firmly founded on English ideas expressed by Thomas Whately, introduced the English landscape garden to France, as the jardin Anglois.
The sociable Watelet, who was born and died in Paris, was at the center of the French art world of his time.



Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	21 August 1725	21 March 1805
Location of birth/death	Tournus	Paris
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q347139 VIAF: 24611548 ISNI: 0000 0000 8102 8662 ULAN: 500000119 LCCN: n85252610 WGA: GREUZE, Jean-Baptiste WorldCat