. Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. -St Mary-le-Strand from the Gibbs, Architect. INTRODUCTORY NOTE 13 commenced. Fig. 9 is a birds-eye view of the pile from aneighteenth-century engraving. Vanbrughs knowledge of buildingwas probably acquired prior to the year 1695, when he was madeSecretary to the Commission of Greenwich Hospital. In all prob-ability he studied on the Continent, and it is recorded that in 1691-93 English gentlemen, Mr Vanbrook, Mr Goddard, and Mr North,. Fig. 9.—Castle Howard, York
. Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. -St Mary-le-Strand from the Gibbs, Architect. INTRODUCTORY NOTE 13 commenced. Fig. 9 is a birds-eye view of the pile from aneighteenth-century engraving. Vanbrughs knowledge of buildingwas probably acquired prior to the year 1695, when he was madeSecretary to the Commission of Greenwich Hospital. In all prob-ability he studied on the Continent, and it is recorded that in 1691-93 English gentlemen, Mr Vanbrook, Mr Goddard, and Mr North,. Fig. 9.—Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Sir John Vanbrugh, Architect. were clapt up in the Bastile, suspected to be spyes, also that Frenchmerchants were the other day sent to the Tower to be used as MrNorth and Mr Vanbroke are in the Bastile. Perhaps Vanbrughsknowledge of architecture abroad may have been sufficient to develophis originality and to show him the futility of adhering too closely torules; at all events, it was in July 1703, while Castle Floward wasin course of erection, when he wrote the letter to his friend, Tonson,the bookseller, desiring him to procure a French edition of Palladio. H THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM Like the brothers Adam, James Gibbs was of Scottishparentage, having been born in Aberdeenshire in 1682. Aftertravelling in Holland, he pursued his studies in Paris, and finallyin Rome, where he worked under the guidance of Carlo Fontana,an architect who belonged to the baroque school of Bernini. At thistime it was considered necessary to take the
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