biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1781–1867)
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| biography:
| British architect, the son of Robert Smirke (1752–1845), painter and book-illustrator. Architect to the board of works, his public buildings are usually Classical, his domestic architecture Gothic. Covent Garden Theatre (1809) was his first great undertaking; the British Museum (1823–47) his best known. He also designed the General Post Office (1824–9) and the College of Physicians (1825). His brother, Sydney (1799–1877), completed the west wing of the Museum and the reading room (1854), and rebuilt the Carlton Club (1857). |
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