Robert Price (1717–1761)

He contributed to the garden design at the family property of Foxley, Herefordshire, was an art patron, and was the father of Uvedale Price, theorist of the picturesque.

[4] In Geneva, Price took part in the "Common Room" group of expatriate Britons running amateur dramatics in 1740–1, supplying incidental music and painting scenery.

[6] Some of the group, including Price, with Pococke and Walter Chetwynd (died 1786, the Fellow of King's College, Cambridge),[7] made a six-day journey in June 1741 to visit Chamonix, the Mer de Glace and other alpine sights.

[8] At the end of that period Price met in Paris Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, and adopted his habit of carrying a sketchbook around with him.

[10] Gainsborough married in 1746 Margaret Burr, illegitimate daughter of Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort who was Price's second cousin on his mother's side.

[13] A broader use of the "Common Room" term is for a classical culture study group that included Arthur Pond, a Grand Tourist of the 1720s.

[21] The "irregular but easy paths leading up to viewpoints" mentioned in the Oxford Companion to Gardens are now attributed to Richard, who used a "triangle and plummet" to equalise gradients.

[22][23] Sold by the Price family in 1855, the iconic "picturesque" landscaped estate at Foxley has returned to the normal mixed farming look of the county.