Early classical career James Wyatt



wyatt s pantheon in oxford street, london


externally unremarkable (illustration, right), classicising domed hall surrounded galleried aisles , apsidal ends, new in assembly rooms, , brought architect immediate celebrity. design exhibited @ royal academy, private commissions followed, , @ age of 26 wyatt found himself fashionable domestic architect , on 27 august 1770 associate of royal academy. polished manners secured him friends patrons among great, , when rumoured leave country become architect catherine ii of russia, group of english noblemen said have offered him retaining fee of £1,200 remain in service. major neoclassical country houses include heaton hall near manchester (1772), heveningham hall in suffolk (circa 1788-99), , castle coole in ireland, packington hall in staffordshire, home of levett family generations, , dodington park in gloucestershire codrington family. on 15 february 1785 wyatt elected academician of royal academy, diploma work being drawing of darnley mausoleum.








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