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22 de jun. de 2017 · In 1757 the Swedish-born Scot, William Chambers (1723–1796) was appointed as architectural tutor to the future king, George III. Chambers’ job was to teach the young heir the principles of classical architecture, but together they also designed and built several real buildings too. The King’s Topographical Collection, assembled by George...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
