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Joseph Michael Gandy

Joseph Michael Gandy (1771 - 1843) was active/lived in England, Italy.  Joseph Gandy is known for Architecture and topography drawings, stage-set designs, landscape painting.

An architect by profession, Joseph Gandy was trained in the office of James Wyatt from 1786 onwards, before enrolling in the Royal Academy Schools in 1789. Following a period of three years spent in Rome, he returned to London where he was employed as a draughtsman by the architect Sir John Soane, for whom he began working in 1798.

Although long regarded by scholars as merely an employee of Soane, translating the latter’s architectural designs into full-scale watercolours, it is now known that Gandy often produced drawings after his own inventions. (That he was certainly held in high regard by Soane is shown in the comments made by the architect in a lecture presented at the Royal Academy in 1813: ‘A superior manner of Drawing is absolutely necessary, indeed it is impossible not to admire the beauties and almost magical effects in the architectural drawings of a Clérisseau, a Gandy, or a Turner.’)

Gandy maintained a modest architectural practice of his own, and regularl   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2220 characters.]  Artist bio

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