William Bruce
Scottish architect (1630-1710) · United Kingdom · Architects · Died at 80
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Something wrong?Sir William Bruce of Kinross, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish gentleman-architect, "the effective founder of classical architecture in Scotland," as Howard Colvin observes.
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General George Monck, painted 1665-1666 from the studio of Sir Peter Lely
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, by Sir Peter Lely. Lauderdale was the most powerful man in Scotland, and Bruce benefited from his patronage.
The Bruce family vault, old Kinross churchyard
The south front of Balcaskie, showing the near-symmetrical facade, and Italian terraces
The main front of Thirlestane Castle, largely as Bruce remodelled it
The entrance front of Holyroodhouse, as designed by Bruce
Old Dunkeld House, c. 1693About this person
Sir William Bruce of Kinross, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish gentleman-architect, "the effective founder of classical architecture in Scotland," as Howard Colvin observes. As a key figure in introducing the Palladian style into Scotland, he has been compared to the pioneering English architects Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren, and to the contemporaneous introducers of French style in English domestic architecture, Hugh May and Sir Roger Pratt.
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