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Isaac Ware
b. c. 1707,
d. London, 1766.

Isaac Ware was a leading English famous architect of the Georgian era, though his importance derives chiefly from his books, which were enormously influential. A man of humble origins, Ware spent his early years (1721-8) as an apprentice to the highly respected architect Thomas Ripley; he later secured the position [...]

Charles Cameron
b. London, mid-1740s;
d. St Petersburg I (Leningrad), 1811/12.
British architect, creator of integrated building and landscape compositions that brought English aesthetic ideas to the Imperial Russian court of Catherine the Great. He was apprenticed as a carpenter by his father, a builder, but in the early 1760s he was hired, on the basis of his [...]