James Wyatt RA

Royal Academy

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 (August 3, 1746 – September 4, 1813), was an English

England

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 architect

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, a rival of Robert Adam

Robert Adam

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 in the neoclassical

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 style, who far outdid Adam in his work in the neo-Gothic style.
Wyatt spent six years in Italy

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, 1762–1768, in company with Richard Bagot of Staffordshire, who was Secretary to the Earl of Northampton's embassy to the Venetian Republic. In Venice

Venice

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, Wyatt studied with Antonio Visentini

Antonio Visentini

thumb|220px|View of Piazza San Marco in Venice, by Antonio Visentini .Antonio Visentini was an Italian architectural designer, painter and engraver, known for his architectural fantasies and capricci, the author of treatises on perspective and professor at the Venetian Academy...

 (1688–1782) as an architectural draughtsman and painter.