| The Life and Works of James Wyatt | ||
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| James Wyatt was born in 1746 in England and died in 1813 in his home land. | ![]() |
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| His rival was Robert Adam, another English Architect. | ||
If the two rivals were judged most people would say that James Wyatt beat Robert Adam in his designs. James Wyatt designed Gothic style buildings. |
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| These two buildings were both built by James Wyatt showing the Gothic style that Wyatt used | ||
| In his early career he spent his time in Italy studying with Italian painter Antonio Visentini. | In Rome, Wyatt made measured drawings of St. Peters Basilica. | Wyatt did this in a very dagerous way. He did this on a sideways ladder without supports or siderails, and if he fell he would fall 300 feet to his death. Luckily he did not die during this dangerous task. |
| At 26 Wyatt was a well known architect. | He was so popular that when rumors spread that he was going to move to Russia to work for Catherine the 2nd, he was offered £1,200 so that he would stay in England. | ![]() |
| This is the inside of the building above the picture, also illustrating Wyatt's use of Gothic architecture in Interior Design | ||
| James Wyatt died in a carraige accident and was burried in Westminster Abbey, he left his wife and four sons. | ||
| His sons all became famous architects like like there father and if he was alive he would have been proud. | ||