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Isaac Ware

(1704?-1766), Architect

Early Georgian Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter in 2 portraits
Architect. Sent to study in Italy, possibly by Lord Burlington, Ware became one of the leading practitioners in the Palladian style and was Secretary to the Board of Works from 1736 until his death. His principal private commissions were Chesterfield House in Mayfair, 1748-9, and Wrotham Park, Middlesex, built in 1754 for Admiral Byng.

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Isaac Ware, after Louis François Roubiliac - NPG 4982

Isaac Ware

after Louis François Roubiliac
marble bust, after a work of circa 1740
NPG 4982

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Isaac Ware

cast by J.P. Langhorn, after Unknown artist, after Louis François Roubiliac
plaster, 1975 (circa 1741)
NPG D21388

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