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ID: 500008907

Record Type: Person

Adam, Robert (Scottish architect and designer, 1728-1792)

Note: In 1755 Robert Adam began a long association with Charles-Louis Clérisseau, first as his student later as his employer. Clérisseau assisted Adam in his study of ancient architectural and decorative forms and their adaptation to a new architectural style. He settled in London at the end of the 1750s. Architect of Apsley House, ca. 1771-1778.

Names:
	Adam, Robert (preferred,V,index,LC)
	Robert Adam (V,display)

Nationalities:
	British (modern) (preferred)
	Scottish (Scots, Scotsman)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	designer
	furniture designer
	interior designer(s)
	interior decorator(s)
	architect
	printmaker
	engraver (printmaker)
	draftsman
	watercolorist

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Kirkcaldy (Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

child of ....	Adam, William, Sr.
..............	(Scottish architect, 1689-1748) [500001704]

employee was ....	Bonomi, Joseph
......................	(English architect, 1739-1808) [500004469]

member of ....	Adam family
................	(British architects, active 17th-18th centuries) [500075129]

partner of ....	Adam, James
..................	(Scottish architect, 1732-1794) [500006105]

sibling by marriage (in-law) of ....	Clerk, John, II
......................................................	(Scottish amateur draftsman, etcher, and antiquarian, 1728-1812) [500008068]

sibling of ....	Adam, James
..................	(Scottish architect, 1732-1794) [500006105]

student of ....	Clérisseau, Charles Louis
..................	(French architect, painter, and archaeologist, 1722-1820) [500002063]

student of ....	Lallemand, Jean Baptiste 1755
..................	(French painter and draftsman, 1716-ca. 1803) [500019649]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Adam, Robert (I)

Biographies:

(Scottish architect and designer, 1728-1792) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist, 1728-1792) ..... [GRL]
(British architect, 1728-1792) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(British artist, 1728-1792) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Scottish architect, 1728-1792) ..... [AVERY]
(British artist, 1728-1792) ..... [WCI]
(British artist, 1728-1792) ..... [WCP]
(British, 1728-1792) ..... [GRLPSC]
(Scottish, architect, interior designer, draftsman, watercolorist and engraver; born Kirkcaldy (Fifeshire, Scotland, Great Britain, now United Kingdom), 1728; died London (England, Great Britain, now United Kingdom), 1792) ..... [CCA]
(British architect and designer, 1728-1792) ..... [BHA]
(Scottish architect, 1728-1792) ..... [AVERY]

Sources and Contributors:

Adam, Robert ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPSC Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
..........................	CCA Authority File (1980-)
..........................	Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 11
..........................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.) n 50035115
..........................	Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Kunstler (1980-1986)
..........................	Witt Library, Authority files

Robert Adam ........	[CCA]
........................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Subject: ........	[AVERY, BHA, CCA, CL-Courtauld, GRL, GRLPSC, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................	Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................	CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................	Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects (1978)
....................	Dictionary of National Biography, 1912-1921 (1927)
....................	Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
....................	Fleming, Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts (1989) 11
....................	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................	Library of Congress Authorities database (n.d.)
....................	Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
....................	Mallalieu, British Watercolour Artists (1986-1990)
....................	Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Kunstler (1980-1986)
....................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CCA, CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
	..........	Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982) 20

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