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Willey Reveley - Landscape With Sea, Town and Hills

Landscape With Sea, Town and Hills (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
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Willey Reveley was an 18th-century English architect, born at Newton Underwood near Morpeth, Northumberland. He was a pupil of Sir William Chambers, and was trained at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1781-2 he was employed (under Chambers) as assistant clerk of works at Somerset House.

Around 1788, Reveley travelled in Greece to make sketches for Sir Richard Worsley. That year, he married Maria James, better known under her later married name of Gisborne as a friend of Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Maria's father opposed the marriage and refused to help the couple financially. They returned to England, where they lived on an income of £140 a year. Their son, Henry Willey Reveley (1788–1875), became a civil engineer and architect in Cape Town and Western Australia. Their other son's name is unknown.

Reveley was a strong liberal and became a friend of William Godwin and Thomas Holcroft. About 1791 he received his first professional fee as an architect, £10, for assisting philosopher Jeremy Bentham in preparing architectural drawings for Bentham's scheme for a Panopticon prison. Reveley continued to work on the project with Bentham for the rest of the 1790s.

Reveley contributed some views of the Levant to the Museum Worsleyanum (1794), the catalogue of Worsley's collections; and, also in 1794, edited the third volume of James Stuart's Antiquities of Athens.

In 1796, Reveley made four proposals to straighten the River Thames between Wapping and Woolwich Reach in east London. A new channel across the Rotherhithe, Isle of Dogs and Greenwich peninsulas would reduce the river's length, improve flow to remove pollution, and simplify navigation. Three large horseshoe bends of the river would have been left as huge wet docks, connected to the new channel through locks. Parliament rejected all four proposals.

Like the Thames scheme and the Panopticon prison, Reveley's designs for a public bath complex at Bath and an infirmary at Canterbury did not come to fruition. His completed projects were All Saints' Church, Southampton (constructed 1792–5, destroyed in 1940); and Windmill Hill, Sussex, a country house built for W. H. Pigou and completed in 1798.

He died on 6 July 1799 after a few hours illness.

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View of the domes and spires of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

View of the domes and spires of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (ca. 1785)

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Back View of the Head of the Sphinx

Back View of the Head of the Sphinx (ca. 1785)

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Two Rowing Boats and a Sailboat by a Steep Cliff, Hilly Landscape Seen From the Sea

Two Rowing Boats and a Sailboat by a Steep Cliff, Hilly Landscape Seen From the Sea (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Paestum

Paestum (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Landscape With Hills in Distance

Landscape With Hills in Distance (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Rome with Ruins seen Through an Archway

Rome with Ruins seen Through an Archway (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Harbour Town Surrounded by Windmills

Harbour Town Surrounded by Windmills (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
View of a Walled Town and Harbour with Towers Seen From the Sea

View of a Walled Town and Harbour with Towers Seen From the Sea (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Ruined Bridge with Four Pointed Arches Near Rome

Ruined Bridge with Four Pointed Arches Near Rome (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
View From a Hillside Over Looking a Seaside Village in Turkey

View From a Hillside Over Looking a Seaside Village in Turkey (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
A Camel

A Camel (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Place of Worship with Three Bell Towers with Crosses

Place of Worship with Three Bell Towers with Crosses (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Gateway in a City Wall With Towers

Gateway in a City Wall With Towers

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Ruins in Rome with Goats, Cows and Herdsmen

Ruins in Rome with Goats, Cows and Herdsmen (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
Study of a Woman Wearing Turkish Costume

Study of a Woman Wearing Turkish Costume (ca. 1785)

Willey Reveley (English, 1760–1799)
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