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Ambrose Poynter

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Poynter lived in Paris between 1830 and 1832, where Lavinia Forster (his mother-in-law from 1832) provided a social centre for artists. They included
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In the mid-1840s, while serving in the capacity of the Official Referee of Metropolitan buildings, Poynter became Professor of Fine Arts at
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In 1858, Poynter developed an eye affection which led to his total blindness, and some of his commissions were taken over by
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A popular handbook to the National Gallery: including by special permission notes collected from the works of Mr. Ruskin
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Born in London on 16 May 1796, he was second son of Ambrose Lyon Poynter by Thomasine Anne Peck; the family was of
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who had married another daughter. Poynter sketched with, and studied watercolour painting under,
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Antonia Brodie; British Architectural Library; Royal Institute of British Architects (2001).
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Royal Hospital of St Katharine, Regent's Park, London, 1827 engraving. The chapel is now the
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Poynter married Emma Forster (1800–1848), a granddaughter of the sculptor,
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from 1814 to 1818. In 1819–21, he travelled to Italy, Sicily, and the
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Poynter set up for himself as an architect in London, initially at 1
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The Cambridge Movement: The Ecclesiologists and the Gothic Revival
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The Cambridge Movement: The Ecclesiologists and the Gothic Revival
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Directory of British Architects, 1834–1914: Vol. 2 (L-Z)
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in 1841. St Paul's was the target of criticism from the
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Ruskin, John; National Gallery (Great Britain) (1901).
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Annals of Thomas Banks: Sculptor, Royal Academician
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He was one of the founding members of the 527:The history and philosophy of art education 544: 480:Thomas Banks; Sir Thomas Lawrence (1938). 146:Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh 523: 175: 57: 226: 166: 96: 54:'s funeral in Rome on 26 February 1821. 500:Hamlet and the Visual Arts: 1709 – 1900 368:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 171:St Paul's Church, Hills Road, Cambridge 109:Poynter designed a trio of churches in 22:(16 May 1796 – 20 November 1886) was a 654: 360: 358: 356: 354: 352: 350: 348: 346: 344: 279:(1836–1919), an artist, married 530:. James Clarke & Co. p. 92. 317: 315: 313: 311: 365:Bradley, Simon. "Poynter, Ambrose". 634: 364: 341: 321: 80:Hospital and Chapel of St Katharine 13: 682:Academics of King's College London 308: 298:Poynter married secondly in 1850. 144:In 1851, Poynter was hired by Sir 14: 698: 597: 216:, he made drawings to illustrate 645:Dictionary of National Biography 624: 603: 334:Dictionary of National Biography 262: 42:origin. Poynter was employed by 662:19th-century English architects 400:Regent's Park and Primrose Hill 222:Genealogical History of England 28:Institute of British Architects 490: 473: 451: 434: 417: 391: 1: 301: 291:; Edward and Agnes's son Sir 239: 125:in 1842–43, and St Paul's on 33: 385:UK public library membership 231:Ambrose Poynter, drawing of 202:Pictorial History of England 7: 10: 703: 524:MacDonald, Stuart (2004). 188:, as well as the sculptor 117:in 1837–39; the Church of 293:Ambrose Macdonald Poynter 328:"Poynter, Ambrose"  186:Richard Parkes Bonington 131:Cambridge Camden Society 441:James F. White (1962). 424:James F. White (1962). 92:Christ Church, Broadway 687:Architects from London 497:Alan R. Young (2002). 377:10.1093/ref:odnb/22687 236: 176:Artist and illustrator 172: 106: 58:Architectural practice 285:Georgiana Burne-Jones 246:King's College London 230: 170: 148:to make additions to 100: 212:. A student also of 50:. 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British architect
Institute of British Architects
Huguenot
John Nash
Ionian islands
John Keats
Poets' Corner
Queen Anne's Gate
Palladian
Tudor Gothic
Hospital and Chapel of St Katharine
Regent's Park
Herbert Taylor
Christ Church, Broadway

Danish Church
Cambridge
Newmarket Road
St Andrew the Great
St Andrew's Road
Hills Road
Cambridge Camden Society
Augustus Pugin
Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh
Pynes House
Exeter
Warwick Castle
Crewe Hall

William Callow

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