NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824 NRA: Knight Richard Payne (1750-1824) Numismatist Antiquary MP DNB: Knight, Richard Payne (1751-1824), art collector and writer LBT ID: RiKnigh1824 VIAF ID: 14940632 LOC ID: n82067521 | B/BAP: 1751-02-11 DIED: 1824-04-23 |
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MP and writer on taste; in 1786 he published An Account of the Remains
of the Worship of Priapus for the Society of Dilettanti; he was author of The Landscape: a Didactic Poem (1794), An
Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1805) and other works. | |