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Isaac Ware - Design for a Staircase Ceiling

Design for a Staircase Ceiling (ca. 1756)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
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Isaac Ware

Isaac Ware was an English architect and translator of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

Ware was born to a life of poverty, living as a street urchin and working as a chimney sweep, until he was adopted by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington at the age of eight (in about 1712) after which he was groomed and educated as a young nobleman. Reportedly he was drawing on the pavement of Whitehall whereupon Burlington, recognising the talent, intelligence and personality, took him into his own household. His subsequent education included a Grand Tour of Europe and the study of architecture. (On his deathbed the ingrained soot of the chimney-sweep was still detectable.)

He was apprenticed to Thomas Ripley, 1 August 1721, and followed him in positions in the Office of Works, but his mentor in design was Lord Burlington. Ware was a member of the St. Martin's Lane Academy, which brought together many of the main figures in the English Rococo movement, among them Louis François Roubiliac, who sculpted Ware's portrait bust about 1741.

Although he held various posts with the Office of Works between 1728 and his death, including Secretary, a position previously held by Nicholas Hawksmoor, Ware's major works were for private patrons. Aside from Chesterfield House, Westminster, (1747–52; demolished 1937) with its Palladian exterior and rococo interior details he built a small number of country houses, most of which have been subsequently remodelled or demolished. Clifton Hill House, Bristol, and Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire survive, Clifton Hill House, built in 1746 –50, is a Palladian villa, a type Ware also used for two houses in Scotland in the next ten years, both with service wings linked to the main house by passages. At Wrotham (1756) the central block was flanked by wings ending in octagonal pavilions. He also engaged in speculative building in the West End of London.

Ware was dissatisfied with the first English language edition of Andrea Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, translated by Giacomo Leoni), and in particular with Leoni's illustrations. In 1738 Ware published his translation illustrated with his own careful engravings. Ware's version of the Four Books of Architecture remained the best English translation into the twentieth century in the opinion of Howard Colvin.

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Section of the West Front, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Section of the West Front, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings (a); Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b); End of Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings (a); Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b); End of Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation

Side of the Staircase, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London; Plan of the End Room Below (Northwest Corner Room, First Floor)

Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London; Plan of the End Room Below (Northwest Corner Room, First Floor) (ca. 1732–42)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Ground Floor (Basement) Plan

Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Ground Floor (Basement) Plan (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
The West Front of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation

The West Front of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings; (a); Salon Chimney, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b); Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings; (a); Salon Chimney, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b); Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London; Plan of Sir Robert Walpole’s Dressing Room (Middle Room, West Front, First Floor)

Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London; Plan of Sir Robert Walpole’s Dressing Room (Middle Room, West Front, First Floor) (ca. 1732–42)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London; Plan of the Great Middle Room (Sir Robert Walpole’s Levee Room, Northwest Corner, First Floor)

Treasury House, 10 Downing Street, London; Plan of the Great Middle Room (Sir Robert Walpole’s Levee Room, Northwest Corner, First Floor) (1732–35)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings; (a); Hall Chimney-Piece, Houghton Hall, Norfolk; (b); Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings; (a); Hall Chimney-Piece, Houghton Hall, Norfolk; (b); Hall Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Section of the East Front, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Section of the East Front, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Salon Chimney, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation

Salon Chimney, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
Transverse Section, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

Transverse Section, Houghton Hall, Norfolk (1735)

Isaac Ware (English, 1704-1766)
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