James Elmes
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James Elmes (15 October 1782, London – 2 April 1862, Greenwich) was an English architect, civil engineer, and writer on the arts.
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[edit] Biography
He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and, after studying building under his father, and architecture under George Gibson, became a student at the Royal Academy, where he gained the silver medal in 1804. He designed a large number of buildings in the metropolis, and was surveyor and civil engineer to the Port of London, but is best known as a writer on the arts. In 1809 he became vice-president of the Royal Architectural Society, but this office, as well as that of surveyor of the port of London, he was compelled through partial loss of sight to resign in 1828. He founded and edited the Annals of the Fine Arts between 1816 and 1820. He died in Greenwich in 1862.
He was father of Harvey Lonsdale Elmes.
[edit] Works
- Sir Christopher Wren and his Times (1823)
- Lectures on Architecture (1823)
- The Arts and Artists (1825)
- General and Biographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts (1826)
- Treatise on Architectural Jurisprudence (1827), and Thomas Clarkson: a Monograph (1854)
[edit] References
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
[edit] External links
- C. J. Robinson, ‘Elmes, James (1782–1862)’, rev. Anne Pimlott Baker, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Jan 2008
- Works by or about James Elmes in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
