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William Chambers fue un arquitecto británico nacido en Suecia, autor de la Somerset House de Londres, obra capital del neoclasicismo inglés.
William Chambers, born 16 April 1800, was a writer, publisher, social reformer, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and much more besides. In 1882, the year before his death, William Chambers published a short autobiography, more a series of reminiscences, which he called – A Long and Busy Life. Rarely has there been a more apt title for a man who ...
23 de dic. de 2017 · Approximately 700 drawings of Sir William Chambers’ eighteenth-century design for Somerset House reside at Sir John Soane’s Museum. Yet, to start, it was not at all certain that Chambers would get the commission. At that point in his career he was Comptroller of the Works under King George III, a… Read More
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. English: Sir William Chambers ( 1723 – 1796) was a Scottish architect, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, where his father was a merchant. Between 1740 and 1749 he was employed by the Swedish East India Company making several voyages to China where he studied Chinese architecture and decoration.
21 de may. de 2018 · Chambers, Sir William (1723–96). Important British Classical architect. Son of a Scottish merchant, he was born at Göteborg, Sweden, educated in Yorks., and travelled in India and China with the Swedish East India Company (1740–9). In 1749 he enrolled in J. -F. Blondel 's École des Arts in Paris and in 1750 he travelled to Italy, where he ...
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 ...
Chambers's architecture combined English Palladianism and French Neo-Classicism, as can be seen at the Casino, Marino, near Dublin (1758–76), built on a Greek-cross plan, and at his masterpiece, Somerset House, London (1776–96), arguably the grandest official building ever erected in the capital: John Webb's Queen's Gallery, Somerset House (1662), which had an arched rusticated ground ...
