biography
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| lived:
| (1769–1831)
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| biography:
| Connoisseur and antiquarian, born in Amsterdam of English parents. A man of considerable wealth, he travelled widely in Europe and the Near East in his youth, collecting marble artefacts and making drawings of buildings and sculptures. He settled in London c.1796, and introduced the vogue of Egyptian and Roman decoration in his mansion in Duchess St, London. He wrote House Furniture and Interior Decoration (1807), and a novel, Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Modern Greek (1819), a picaresque tale of an unscrupulous Greek adventurer, which enjoyed great popularity in its time. |
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