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Design for Waterloo Palace, the proposed town residence of the Duke of Wellington
Auction: 05/22/2008
Lot: 220
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Joseph Michael Gandy AUCTION RECORDS
1771 London, England - 1843 Plympton, Devon, England. Known for: Architecture and topography drawings, stage-set designs, landscape painting.
An architect by profession, Joseph Gandy was trained in the office of James Wyatt from 1786 onwards, before enrolling in the Royal Academy Schools in 1789. Following a period of three years spent in... Read full biography
An architect by profession, Joseph Gandy was trained in the office of James Wyatt from 1786 onwards, before enrolling in the Royal Academy Schools in 1789. Following a period of three years spent in Rome, he returned to London where he was employed as a draughtsman by the architect Sir John Soane,... Read full biography
An architect by profession, Joseph Gandy was trained in the office of James Wyatt from 1786 onwards, before enrolling in the Royal Academy Schools in 1789. Following a period of three years spent in Rome, he returned to London where he was employed as a draughtsman by the architect Sir John Soane, for whom he began working in 1798. Although long regarded by scholars as merely an employee of Soane, translating the latter’s architectural designs into full-scale watercolours, it is now known that... Read full biography
An architect by profession, Joseph Gandy was trained in the office of James Wyatt from 1786 onwards, before enrolling in the Royal Academy Schools in 1789. Following a period of three years spent in Rome, he returned to London where he was employed as a draughtsman by the architect Sir John Soane, for whom he began working in 1798. Although long regarded by scholars as merely an employee of Soane, translating the latter’s architectural designs into full-scale watercolours, it is now known that Gandy often produced drawings after his own inventions. (That he was certainly held in high regard by Soane is shown in the comments made by the architect in a lecture presented at the Royal Academy in 1813: ‘A superior manner of Drawing is... Read full biography
An architect by profession, Joseph Gandy was trained in the office of James Wyatt from 1786 onwards, before enrolling in the Royal Academy Schools in 1789. Following a period of three years spent in Rome, he returned to London where he was employed as a draughtsman by the architect Sir John Soane, for whom he began working in 1798. Although long regarded by scholars as merely an employee of Soane, translating the latter’s architectural designs into full-scale watercolours, it is now known that Gandy often produced drawings after his own inventions. (That he was certainly held in high regard by Soane is shown in the comments made by the architect in a lecture presented at the Royal Academy in 1813: ‘A superior manner of Drawing is absolutely necessary, indeed it is impossible not to admire the beauties and almost magical effects in the architectural drawings of a Clérisseau, a Gan... Read full biography
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Joseph Michael Gandy 
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeThe landing place to a Temple of Victory through the Gate of Minerva
Joseph Michael Gandy Auction: 10/18/2021Lot: 51Subscribe or get free alerts
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Album of landscapes and studies from nature including views of Dorking
Joseph Michael Gandy Auction: 11/20/2003Lot: 7Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeFive landscape sketches, including: A view of Brighton Beach; Landscape near Norwood; and Chalk pit near Eastbourne
Joseph Michael Gandy Auction: 07/03/2024Lot: 244Subscribe or get free alerts
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Reconstruction of Sparta - Persian Porch and Place of Consultation
Joseph Michael Gandy Auction: 11/14/1989Lot: 117Subscribe or get free alerts
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