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Sir William Chambers, född 23 februari 1723 i Göteborg, död 8 mars 1796 i London, var en svensk-brittisk hovarkitekt och trädgårds- och landskapsarkitekt verksam i London. Chambers utbildade sig till arkitekt i Paris och Rom och betraktas som det sena 1700-talets viktigaste engelska arkitekt.
Civil Architecture. William Chambers (1723-1796), A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture , London : Priestley and Weale, 1825. Chambers publicó por vez primera su Treatise On Civil Architecture en 1759. Pero le cambió el título en las siguientes ediciones de 1768 y 1791 : A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil ...
Brought up in Sweden by Scottish parents, trained in France, a visitor to China and India, Sir William Chambers (1726-96) was by far the most internationally minded British architect of his time. Settling in London in 1755, Chambers became a favourite of King George III and went on to hold the highest official architectural offices and to build public and private commissions throughout the ...
14 de may. de 2018 · Abstract. Sir William Chambers was one of the most important English architects in the eighteenth-century, but both in his day and later his international recognition was closely connected with his admiration for and promotion of Chinese art, particularly Chinese landscaping.
Title: General Plan of the Gardens at Kew. Architect: Sir William Chambers (British (born Sweden), Göteborg 1723–1796 London) Date: 1763. Medium: Watercolor, pen and ink. Dimensions: sheet: 20 7/8 x 47 5/8 in. (53 x 121 cm) Classifications: Drawings, Ornament & Architecture. Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925. Accession Number: 25. ...
William Chambers was born in Stockholm, where his father worked, in 1726. The family returned to England in 1728 and settled in Ripon, in Yorkshire, where William received his school education. At the age of sixteen the boy, who had a taste for travel and adventure, shipped as super cargo in a ship of the Swedish East India Company, and made at ...
William Chambers (architect) (1723–1796), Born to Scottish parents in Sweden, architect, based in London William Chambers (industrialist) (1774–1855), see Glamorgan Pottery William Frederick Chambers (1786–1855), British doctor and Fellow of the Royal Society
