The Tour in Holland of the Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort

Dervilia Roche
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Holland, Ireland
Period: 18th to 19th Century

10,000 words

The Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort is best known from an art historical point of view for his designing of several buildings, most notably Collon Church, Co. Louth, as well as being a connoisseur of architecture in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Among his many travel journals and diaries is an account of a tour undertaken to Holland in 1764, when Beaufort was twenty-five years of age. His comments in this give a sense of the early thoughts on art and architecture, as well as other interests, of an architect about whom very little is known. This dissertation presents a reconstruction of the tour, with illustrations of many of the buildings and artworks he viewed in Holland. Other such tours in Holland are studied and Beaufort’s is compared to these. This study provides a valuable insight into the unfamiliar subject of eighteenth-century tours in Holland.

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The Tour in Holland of the Rev. Daniel Augustus Beaufort