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    Sir Robert Smirke RA (1 October 1780 – 18 April 1867) was an English architect, one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture, though he also used...
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  • Robert Smirke may refer to: Robert Smirke (painter) (1753–1845), English painter Robert Smirke (architect) (1780–1867), his son, English architect This...
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    Robert Smirke RA (15 April 1753 – 5 January 1845) was an English painter and illustrator, specialising in small paintings showing subjects taken from...
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    Haughton after Robert Smirke Act I, scene 4 by Anker Smith after Robert Smirke Act IV, scene 1 by Thomas Holloway after Robert Smirke Act V, scene 5 by...
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    The Seven Ages of Man is a series of paintings by Robert Smirke, derived from the famous monologue beginning all the world's a stage from William Shakespeare's...
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  • and antiquary Robert Smirke (painter) Robert Smirke (architect), son of Robert Smirke the painter Sydney Smirke, son of Robert Smirke the painter This...
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    King George III, and it was initially known as York House.: 155  Sir Robert Smirke was originally hired to design the house, until under the influence...
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    After the death of the Marquess, the house was extended to designs by Robert Smirke to produce the building in its present form. The house is designated...
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    fifth son of painter Robert Smirke and his wife, Elizabeth Russell. He was the younger brother of Sir Robert Smirke and Sir Edward Smirke, who was also an...
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    British Museum (category Robert Smirke (architect) buildings)
    unique Haytor Granite Tramway. In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round...
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    castle. Eastnor was built for John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers, who employed Robert Smirke, later the main architect of the British Museum. The castle was built...
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    the square's residents. The obelisk was designed by the architect Sir Robert Smirke and the foundation stone was laid in 1817. In 1820, the project ran...
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    Hoo, Bedfordshire (1766–1770) later extensively reconstructed 1816 by Robert Smirke and other architects later Nostell Priory (1766–80) Newby Hall, Newby...
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    Canada House (category Robert Smirke (architect) buildings)
    known as Canada House was built between 1824 and 1827 to designs by Sir Robert Smirke, the architect of the British Museum. It was originally two buildings...
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    (revision of Charles Jervas) Charles Henry Wilmot (1774) Mary Smirke with engravings by Robert Smirke (1818) Alexander James Duffield (1881) John Ormsby (1885)...
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    by Philip Hardwick, and the one in the west corner was designed by Robert Smirke, completed circa 1830. The square contains statues of Christopher Columbus...
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    to the designs of the architect Robert Smirke (later Sir Robert, 1781–1867), a leading architect of the era. Smirke redesigned the house (with the exception...
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    Surgeons of England and his former pupil Robert Smirke's Covent Garden Theatre. Royal Academicians Robert Smirke (painter) father of the architect and his...
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    Oxford and Cambridge Club (category Robert Smirke (architect) buildings)
    Mall, in a purpose-built, Grade II* listed club house designed by Sir Robert Smirke. The present-day Oxford and Cambridge Club is the result of the 1972...
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    Beatrice, Katharine Levy as Hero, Jon Finch as Don Pedro, Robert Lindsay as Benedick, Robert Reynolds as Claudio, Gordon Whiting as Antonio and Vernon...
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    subscription between 1829 and 1834; the architect was Sir Robert Smirke. At the same time, as part of Smirke's scheme, the eastern third of the river frontage was...
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    for long overdue repairs to the castle, which were carried out by Sir Robert Smirke. Their son, Edward (1785–1848), inherited his late uncle's Powis estates...
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    Life of Sir John Falstaff (1858), a novel by Robert Barnabas Brough. Falstaff (1976), a novel by Robert Nye. Volstagg the Voluminous, a Marvel Comics...
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    originally designed by Scottish architect Robert Adam but later transformed to the designs of Robert Smirke. Luton is believed to have been founded by...
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    buildings, which were immediately replaced with a design by Robert Smirke, with Sydney Smirke later adding two more buildings. A famous resident of (at...
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    located 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) west of Annan. The house was designed by Sir Robert Smirke for the 6th Marquess of Queensberry and completed in 1820. It is protected...
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    London estates. From 1809 to 1810 Cockerell became an assistant to Robert Smirke, helping in the rebuilding of Covent Garden Theatre (the forerunner...
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    Campus of King's College, London, England. Originally designed by Sir Robert Smirke in 1831, the Renaissance Revival chapel seen today was redesigned by...
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    scale. The current building is a castellated mansion which was built by Robert Smirke for the 1st Earl of Lonsdale between 1806 and 1814, and it was only...
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    Greek style was to be the dominant idiom in architecture. Wilkins and Robert Smirke went on to build some of the most important buildings of the era, including...
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