Calvert vaux biography for kids
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There is little record of Vaux's childhood and youth in England.
Calvert vaux biography for kids
His father was a doctor and apparently provided a comfortable living for his family. Vaux attended a private primary school until he was nine and then began architectural training as an apprentice in the London office of Lewis N.
Cottingham, an early advocate of the revival of Gothic architectural styles. Vaux became a skilled draftsman, and in 1850, a London gallery exhibition of his watercolors of continental landscapes attracted the attention of Andrew Jackson Downing, who had come to England to find an assistant to run a new architectural department in his own thriving landscape gardening practice.
He recruited Vaux, then twenty-six, who seems to have welcomed the opportunity to escape the relative rigidity and stuffiness of English society. [Ch55]
During the two years that Vaux worked with Downing in Newburgh, New York, up the Hudson from Manhattan, he devoted most of his energy to designing "rural" house