Sir William Chambers

Standard Name: Chambers, Sir William

Connections

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Residence	Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre	Thomas Brand's family home was The Hoo at Kimpton in Hertfordshire. The house was remodelled in the 1760s by William Chambers , and the park was transformed into an English landscape garden by Capability Brown

Timeline

By April 1757

William Chambers (later Sir William) published Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils, a shaping influence on the coming style of Chinoiserie.

Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.

1: 714-15

Summer 1780

The Royal Academy 's first annual exhibition to be held in the new Somerset House (built by Sir William Chambers ) topped all records, with attendance of 61,381 and receipts of £3,074.6s.

Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.

239-41

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