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Aug 5, 2019 · In her essay ‘The external sculptural decoration of Somerset House: And the documentary sources’, Susan Jenkins writes: “It is clear that Sir William Chambers planned a sustained and sophisticated iconographical program for the external sculptural decoration of Somerset House, which was intended to promote England’s position as an important maritime power and advertise the government ...
Sir William Chambers (1723 – 1796) was born in Sweden, educated in England, and in his youth journeyed to India and China as a cadet in the Swedish East India Company. From 1749 he studied architecture at Jacques-François Blondel's École des Arts, Paris, then undertook further years of study in Italy. Returning to England in 1755, he became ...
Bust on a moulded base; with classical drapery round the shoulders, thick curly hair and gaze directed slightly downward to the left. The bust sits on a wooden block, designed for it when it entered Soane's collection and bearing the original painted inscription in gold, <i>c</i>.1832. Probably the bust exhibited by ‘R. Westmacott Jnr. at the Royal Academy in 1797, the year of Chambers ...
SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Knight of the Polar Star ARCHITECT Surveyor General of His Majesty's Works, F.R.S. F.S.A & R.A. Died March 8th 1796, aged 74. He was born at Gothenberg in Sweden in late 1722 or January 1723, a son of John Chambers, a merchant, and his wife Sara. He was sent to England and educated at Ripon in Yorkshire (where his family ...
Casino at Marino. Dundas House (now the headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland) Dunmore Pineapple. Somerset House. 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 ...
At the bottom, you can see that the drawing is inscribed in Chambers’ hand: “Sir William Chambers, K.P.S.” The letters after his name allow us to date the inscription to post-1770 – he might have added this inscription some years after making the drawing – since in this year Chambers was made a Knight of the Polar Star by King Gustav of Sweden.
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William Chambers (1722–1796) was one of the most important architects of the second half of the eighteenth century, his principal work being Somerset House, London (1776–1796). He was born to Scottish parents in Stockholm, and was brought to Britain aged two, spending much of his youth in Yorkshire.
