James Hakewill was an English architect, best known for his illustrated publications.

Life

The second son of John Hakewill, he was brought up as an architect, and exhibited some designs at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...

. He was collecting materials for a work on the Rhine when he died in London, 28 May 1843.

Works

In 1813 he published a series of ‘Views of the Neighbourhood of Windsor, &c.,’ with engravings by others from his own drawings. In 1816–17 he travelled in Italy, and on his return published in parts ‘A Picturesque Tour of Italy,’ in which some of his own drawings were finished into pictures for engraving by J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting...

. In 1820–1 he visited Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

, and subsequently published ‘A Picturesque Tour in the Island of Jamaica,’ from his own drawings.
In 1828 he published ‘Plans, Sections, and Elevations of the Abattoirs in Paris, with considerations for their adoption in London.’ He also published a small tract on Elizabethan architecture. He was engaged in some works at High Legh

High Legh

High Legh is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies six miles north west of Knutsford, seven miles east of Warrington and seventeen miles south west of Manchester City Centre....

 and Tatton Park

Tatton Park

Tatton Park is a historic estate in Cheshire, England, to the north of the town of Knutsford. It contains a mansion, Tatton Hall, a manor house dating from medieval times, Tatton Old Hall, gardens, a farm and a deer park of . It is a popular visitor attraction and hosts over 100 events annually...

, Cheshire, and in 1836 was a competitor for the erection of the new Houses of Parliament. Hakewill is also supposed to be the author of ‘Cœlebs suited, or the Stanley Letters,’ in 1812.

Family

He married in 1807, at St George's, Hanover Square, Maria Catherine, daughter of W. Browne of Green Street, Grosvenor Square, herself a well-known portrait-painter, and a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, who died in 1842. He left four sons, Arthur William, Henry James, Frederick Charles, a portrait-painter, and Richard Whitworth.