James Wyatt
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James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical style and neo-Gothic style.
Early life
Wyatt was born on 3 August 1746 at Weeford, near Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.
Early classical career
Wyatt spent six years in Italy, 1762–68, in partnership with Richard Bagot of Staffordshire, who was Secretary to the Earl of Northampton's embassy to the Venetian Republic. Wyatt, an architectural draughtsman and painter, lived in Venice, Italy, from 1688 to 1882. He made measured drawings of St. Peter's Basilica's dome, "being under the danger of lying on his back on a ladder slung horizontally, without cradle or side-rail across a frightful void of 300 feet."
His appointment as the architect of the forthcoming Pantheon or "Winter Ranelagh" in Oxford Street, London, brought him near-total success. Samuel was one of the primary promoters of the scheme, and it was doubtless due to him that the committee accepted the plans of a young and almost unknown architect. When the Pantheon was opened in 1772, the fashionable public at first endorsed it: Horace Walpole proclaimed it to be England's "most stunning edifice."
It was unremarkable externally, but the iconic domed hall surrounded by swollen aisles and apsidal ends was something new in assembly rooms and brought its architect to the forefront. The work was on display at the Royal Academy, private commissions were followed, and at the age of 26 Wyatt, a fashionable domestic architect and an Associate of the Royal Academy on August 27, 1770. His polished demeanor secured him as well as patrons of the great, and a group of English noblemen is said to have paid him a retaining fee of £1,200 to remain in their service as rumors predicted that he was planning to leave the country to become architect to Catherine II of Russia. Heaton Hall in Manchester (1772), Heveningham Hall in Suffolk (circa 1788-1999), Castle Coole in Ireland), Levett's home for generations, and Dodington Park in Gloucestershire for the Codrington family are among his major neoclassical country houses. Wyatt was elected an Academician of the Royal Academy on February 15, 1785, his diploma work being a drawing of the Darnley Mausoleum.