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ID: 500001704
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500001704
 
Record Type: Person
Adam, William, Sr. (Scottish architect, 1689-1748)

Note: Scottish architect, father of Robert and William Adam.

Names:
Adam, William, Sr. (preferred,V,index)
William Adam, Sr. (V,display)
Adam, William (V,Dutch-P,NA)
William Adam (V,Dutch,NA,U)
Adam, William, I (V)

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

Roles:
artist (preferred)
architect
landscape architect

Gender: male

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

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
employee was ....  Mein, Robert  
......................  (Scottish clerk of the works, active 18th century) [500103697]
member of ....  Adam family  
................  (British architects, active 17th-18th centuries) [500075129]
parent of ....  Adam, James  
................  (Scottish architect, 1732-1794) [500006105]
parent of ....  Adam, John  
................  (Scottish architect, 1721-1792) [500025185]
parent of ....  Adam, Robert  
................  (Scottish architect and designer, 1728-1792) [500008907]
parent of ....  Adam, William, Jr.  
................  (Scottish architect, 1738-1822) [500272118]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Adam, William, Sr. (I)

Biographies:
(Scottish architect, 1689-1748) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(Scottish architect, father of Robert and William Adam, 1689-1748) ..... [AVERY]
( architect, 1689-1748) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Scottish architect, 1689-1748) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, 1689-1748) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Adam, William ........ [AVERY Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP]
............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 127566
............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Adam, William, I ........ [BHA Preferred, VP]
.................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Adam, William, Sr. ........ [VP Preferred]
.....................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
William Adam ........ [CL-Courtauld, RKD, VP]
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
William Adam, Sr. ........ [VP]
...................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, RKD, VP]
....................  ArchINFORM online (1999-) accessed 3 June 2004
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects (1978)
....................  DNB: Oxford National Biography, 1912-1921 (1927)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n85378686
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 3 June 2004
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n85378686
....................  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 127566
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q2424824
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY]
.......... Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
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