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Dec 08, 1930 Princeton, New Jersey, United States Died on 11 Aug 2019 (aged 88)
architectural historian
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About Kerry Downes
- Kerry John Downes (8 December 1930 – 11 August 2019) was an English architectural historian whose speciality was English Baroque architecture.
- He was the son of the organist Ralph Downes (1904–1993).
- He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he was inspired by the lectures of Margaret Whinney.
- He wrote about (among other things) the English architects Nicholas Hawksmoor (c.?1661–1736), Sir John Vanbrugh (1664–1726) and Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723), and the Flemish painter Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).
- His fellow historian James Stevens Curl has written, "Downes's productivity seems to contradict his claim that procrastination is one of his recreations".In 1993, a collection of 24 original essays by colleagues, pupils and friends was dedicated to him, entitled English Architecture Public and Private: Essays for Kerry Downes.Downes died in York on 11 August 2019, aged 88.
