Sydney SmirkeRA FGS FSA (20 December 1797 – 8 December 1877) was a British architect.
Smirke who was born in London, England as the fifth son of painter Robert Smirke and his wife, Elizabeth Russell.[2] He was the younger brother of Sir Robert Smirke and Sir Edward Smirke, who was also an architect. Their sister Mary Smirke was a noted painter and translator.[2]
He received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1860. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1847 and was elected a full Academician in 1859. He served as RA Treasurer from 1861 to 1874, and was professor of Architecture from 1860 to 1865.
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^ ab"Smirke, Sydney (1798–1877), architect". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25764. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
SydneySmirke RA FGS FSA (20 December 1797 – 8 December 1877) was a British architect. Smirke who was born in London, England as the fifth son of painter...
and antiquary Robert Smirke (painter) Robert Smirke (architect), son of Robert Smirke the painter SydneySmirke, son of Robert Smirke the painter This page...
Room remains in its original form at the British Museum. Designed by SydneySmirke and opened in 1857, the Reading Room was in continual use until its...
request by a circular Reading Room of cast iron, designed by Smirke's brother, SydneySmirke. Until the mid-19th century, the museum's collections were...
included Carlo Marochetti, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Tite, SydneySmirke, James Pennethorne, Matthew Digby Wyatt, Philip C. Hardwick, William...
buildings, which were immediately replaced with a design by Robert Smirke, with SydneySmirke later adding two more buildings. A famous resident of (at the...
admissions and overcrowding, new buildings, designed by the architect SydneySmirke, were added from the 1830s. The wing for criminal lunatics was increased...
was the fashion of the time. Later additions to the house built by SydneySmirke in 1862–65, including the great hall, were largely demolished in 1932...
buildings, which were immediately replaced with a design by Robert Smirke, with SydneySmirke later adding two more buildings. A famous resident of (at the...
which otherwise will disappear". The "distinguishing dome" was added by SydneySmirke in 1846 and housed the hospital's chapel. The museum was reopened by...
Kendall, John Norton, Joseph Paxton, James Pennethorne, Anthony Salvin, SydneySmirke, Lewis Vulliamy, Matthew Digby Wyatt and Thomas Henry Wyatt. Various...
Schools, in 1817. His contemporaries at the Royal Academy included SydneySmirke, with whom he would restore Temple Church, London between 1841 and 1843...
University of Edinburgh, notes similarities with an 1834 proposel by SydneySmirke for a national mausoleum in Hyde Park; and echoes of continental monuments...
railway of this unique nature became clearer. Both were designed by SydneySmirke, who presented his designs to the LNC in March 1854. Each station was...
Graham, to designs by Sir Robert Smirke, and between 1844 and 1846 was further enlarged to designs by SydneySmirke. In 1937, T. H. B. Graham died, and...
disguised as a gothic folly. An orangery was built in 1836 to a design by SydneySmirke. In 1925, following the death of Nathan's grandson Leopold de Rothschild...
Henry Abraham, but the chapels were designed by his successor, SydneySmirke. Smirke, working in collaboration with William Broderick Thomas, was responsible...
of architecture in the Royal Academy. In 1874, on the resignation of SydneySmirke, he was appointed treasurer of the academy. Among his most significant...
his work on Vitruvius; then in around 1839 in London under Sir SydneySmirke. When Smirke undertook repairs to the fire-damaged York Minster in the early...
artist and he spent an unhappy year in the office of the architect SydneySmirke, who was a family friend. The artist W. P. Frith spoke to Ward's father...
More images West Sussex 1830 Grade II listed (1027866). Architect: SydneySmirke. Shrewsbury Old Guildhall, Shrewsbury More images Shropshire 1696 Grade...
Edward Smirke (1795 – 4 March 1875) was an English lawyer and antiquary. The third son of Robert Smirke, and brother of Sir Robert Smirke, and of Sydney Smirke...
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