The lives of the British architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London, Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 404
ich made a considerable stir at the time,and was the result of much study and research ; and he wasa designer who upheld the true spirit of the Henaissanceagainst the prevailing fashion for a dilettante rendering ofGreek models on the one hand, and Gothic on the other,into a weak modernism. He was,… … SIR WILLIAM CHAMBEKS Emery Jlal^er To face p. 314 SIR WILLIAM CHAMBERS 315 bulked largely in the public eye, and have thus helped tokeep alive the fame of their creators. William Chambers ^ was the son of a Scotch merchantdomiciled at Stockholm, in which city he was born in 1726,although neither…
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