Ghislain-Joseph Henry
Ghislain-Joseph Henry (1754-1820) was an architect, garden designer and topiarist, notable for his work for Louis XVI, the Holy Roman Emperor, Napoleon, and William I of the Netherlands.
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Ghislain-Joseph Henry
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- Born
- 1754 · Dinant.
- Died
- 1820 · Brussels.
- Nationality
- Belgium · Southern Netherlands
- Occupation
- architect
- Fields
- architecture
- Known for
- Duras Castle
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Ghislain-Joseph Henry (1754-1820) was an architect, garden designer and topiarist, notable for his work for Louis XVI, the Holy Roman Emperor, Napoleon, and William I of the Netherlands.
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Ghislain-Joseph Henry (1754–1820) was an architect and landscape architect and a national of Belgium and Southern Netherlands. Born in Dinant, the architect died in Brussels. Ghislain-Joseph Henry was active in architecture and Architecture. Works include Duras Castle.
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He was born in Dinant (then in the Principality of Liège) in 1754 into a family which originated in Profondeville (Namur). He won first prize for architecture in the Clementine Competition at the Academy of Saint Luke in 1779 and studied at the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome. In 1803 he became one of the founder members of the Société de peinture, sculpture et architecture de Bruxelles and in 1816 he joined the academic council of the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Bruxelles.
Architecture
Architecture
• 1786-1789: Château de Duras, in Palladian style • Major restoration, château de Laeken, of which he became curator • Works, château de Seneffe. • Portico, Enghien, for the duke of Arenberg. • 1815-1829: extensions to the Royal Palace of Brussels
Topiary
Topiary
• Parc à l'anglaise, château de Wespelaar. • Park and 'factories', château de Beauraing, owned by the duc de Beaufort Spontin. • Design for a parc à l'anglaise, commanderie des Vieux Joncs.
Het voormalig lustpaviljoen werd in classicistische stijl ontworpen door de architect Ghislain Henry (1751-1820). In 1989 werd hier een moord gepleegd door een jongeman (Thomas de Spoelberch) op zijn buurmeisje. Op het voorplein is er een vlaggengroet door KSA-leden en twee priesters.
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1754
Ghislain-Joseph Henry was born on 1 January 1754.
1787
Duras Castle is dated 1787.
1820
Ghislain-Joseph Henry died on 8 February 1820.
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- 1.Académie de Bruxelles, deux siècles d'architecture, Bruxelles, Archives d'architecture moderne, 1989, pp. 35, 38, 79 (note 74), 162, 166, 167, 169, 170, 172, 202.
- 2.François de Pierpont, « Le château de Duras », in Le Parchemin, September–October 2009, p. 353.
- 3.Anne and Paul van Ypersele de Strihou, Laeken, résidence impériale et royale, Bruxelles, 1970, p. 27
- 4.Xavier Duquenne, Le parc de Wespelaar, le jardin anglais en Belgique au XVIII siecle, Bruxelles 2001, pp. 43-55.
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