André Joseph Ghislain Parmentier, also known as Andrew Parmentier (3 July 1780 in

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– 27 November 1830 in

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) is one of a generation of

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landscape designers who arrived from Europe in the early years after Independence (not to be confused with the French pharmacist and promoter of the potato,

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). Many of these designers, including

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and George Isham Parkyns, also practiced landscape depiction, reinforcing the picturesque connection of landscape art as both making and representing places. He married Sylvie Parmentier (1793–1882) on 3 May 1813 at

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. After some bad business ventures in Belgium, and with the help of his brothers, André Parmentier moved to the United States in 1821. He lived in Brooklyn, where he was active in

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with a lot of success. One of his creations is a garden of 120.000 m². In 1828 he published his "Periodical catalogue of fruit & ornamental trees and shrubs, green-house plants, etc.. Cultivated and for sale at The Horticultural and Botanic Garden of Brooklyn, corner of the Jamaica and Flatbush roads, about 2 miles from the city of New-York" With, a.o., a plan and description of the garden.

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* 1780 births 1830 deaths American landscape architects Architects of the Austrian Netherlands People from Enghien {{US-architect-stub