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Soane's magician.(Joseph Michael Gandy)(Brief article)
Joseph Michael Gandy was a prodigy born in 1771 into a poor family. His early drawings impressed James Wyatt, the architect of White's Club in London at which Gandy's father was a waiter, and he took on the boy as a pupil. The Royal Academy Schools awarded Gandy a gold medal, and patrons enabled him to travel to Italy to study the monuments of classical antiquity. He returned and dreamed of reconstructing London as a new Rome.
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In 1798 he joined the architectural office of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), and for the next three years painted Soane's designs, whether built or unbuilt, in watercolor perspectives. After setting up his own practice he continued to work as a freelance for Soane until the older man's death three decades later. No one understood Soane's style of architecture better than Gandy, and in ...
- Presentation of Architecture. (Book Reviews).
- Magazine article from: Architectural Science Review September 1, 2002 700+ words
...chapter is devoted to representations by architectural draftsmen who specialised in presentation drawings, such as Joseph Michael Gandy for John Soane and Axel Haig for William Burges. The authors point out that perspectives were used largely for...
- Soane's time and space. (building plans by architect John Soane)
- Magazine article from: The Architectural Review Davey, Peter February 1, 1996 700+ words
...contemporary and rival John Nash.(3) Shown here is what Soane believed to be the right stuff. These drawings(4) by Joseph Michael Gandy are intended to show the construction and the (as yet unexecuted) finished state of the Consols Transfer Office...
- Painting a picture of times abroad; Richard Edmonds looks at artists who chose...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) Edmonds, Richard August 22, 1998 700+ words
...rearranging the monuments of Athens to suit his own purposes. Astonishingly enough, the 19th century English painter, Joseph Michael Gandy did the same thing when he painted an Athens which contained various bits of Greece, Rome, Sparta and even Ancient...
- Thomas Hope's 'true taste': this imaginatively staged exhibition pays handsome...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Knox, Tim May 1, 2008 700+ words
...antique statues are absent, and his celebrated gallery is modestly represented by paintings by Louis Gauffier, Joseph-Michael Gandy and Richard Westall. Hope was dearly obsessed with symmetry, so it is a pity that more pairs of objects are...
- Architectural poetry in motion
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Jonathan Glancey April 5, 1995 700+ words
...he would dream of his buildings as ancient ruins, wondering what future generations would make of them. He had Joseph Michael Gandy, his assistant and a brilliant perspectivist, render the Bank of England and Lincoln's Inn Fields as they might...
- Georgian visions.(Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian...
- Magazine article from: The Architectural Review Davey, Peter May 1, 2006 700+ words
...GEORGIAN ENGLAND By Brian Lukacher. London: Thames & Hudson. 2006. [pounds sterling]40 Most of us know Joseph Michael Gandy (if at all) as John Soane's draughtsman. Soane was extremely lucky--through Gandy's perspectives, we...
- Round and about: April 2006.(paintings exhibition)
- Magazine article from: History Today April 1, 2006 700+ words
Soane's Magician: The Tragic Genius of Joseph Michael Gandy March 31st to August 12th Sir John Soane Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP Tel: 020 7440 4246 For over thirty...
- An exhibition of creative draftsmanship: SOANE COLLECTION DRAWS UPON...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Sullivan, Thomas D. June 9, 1996 700+ words
...Piranesi probably colored Soane's collaboration with two imaginative draftsmen, George Bailey (1792-1860) and Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843), who created some of the most striking images in the exhibit. Soane's own collection of architectural...
