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William Chambers (Gotemburgo, 27 de outubro de 1723 – Londres, 17 de fevereiro de 1796), foi um arquiteto neoclássico do Reino Unido.
William Chambers (born February 23, 1723, Gothenburg, Sweden—died March 8, 1796, London, England) was a British eclectic architect of the Georgian period who was one of the leading Palladian-style architects of his day.
Sir William Chambers RA (23 February 1723 – 10 March 1796) was a Swedish-Scottish architect, based in London. Among his best-known works are Somerset House, and the pagoda at Kew. Chambers was a founder member of the Royal Academy .
William Chambers: The Best of Men and the First of English Architects. This online exhibition, drawn entirely from objects in Sir John Soane’s Museum, celebrates the tercentenary of the birth of Sir William Chambers (1723 – 1796), one of the most acclaimed architects of the later eighteenth century. In his lifetime John Soane (1753 – 1837 ...
Sir William Chambers was the architectural advisor to King George III and a Founder member of the Royal Academy. He served as the RA’s first Treasurer and designed its first purpose-built home, Somerset House.
William Chambers (1723-96) was the most cosmopolitan among British architects of his time. He was born in Sweden into the family of a Scottish merchant, and he travelled in the East from an early age, visiting China ; he then studied architecture in Paris under J-F. Blondel.
21 de mai. 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).
