Richard Woods

Landscape designer Richard Woods was born in either 1715 or 1716. He was well known in his day, working for many aristocratic clients.

He undertook around 40 known commissions, in southern England from the 1750s, in Yorkshire during the 1760s, and in Essex from the 1780s.

Working in the English landscape style, Woods included more flowers in his designs than Lancelot Brown, and designed many garden structures, such as pavilions, temples and bridges.

Sources

Cowell, Fiona, Richard Woods 1715/16: surveyor, improver and master of the pleasure garden (Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2005)

Fiona Cowell, ‘Woods, Richard (1715/16–1793)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57691, accessed 11 Nov 2008]