Gillian Darley
Unfinished Business
James Wyatt: Architect to George III
By John Martin Robinson
Yale University Press 370pp £50) order from our bookshop
James Wyatt arrived in Italy from Staffordshire in 1762, a 16-year-old prodigy. He spent two years in Venice and then went on to Rome. Such was young Wyatt’s evident promise that the esteemed Piranesi gave him a full, ten-volume set of his works. On Wyatt’s return to London in 1768 he was polished, educated and supremely well connected. He also had an enormous commission in his pocket.
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