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ID: 500025712
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500025712
 
Record Type: Person
Playfair, James (Scottish architect, 1755-1794)

Note: Scottish architect. Comment on works: architect

Names:
Playfair, James (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
James Playfair (V,display)
Mr. Playfair (LU,U)
Playfair (LU,U)

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

Roles:
artist (preferred)
architect
owner
landscape architect
draftsman

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Angus (Scotland, United Kingdom) (unitary authority)
Died:  Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Scotland (United Kingdom) (country)
active:   from 1783  Bloomsbury (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (neighborhood)
active:   London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
parent of ....  Playfair, William Henry  
................  (Scottish architect, 1790-1857) [500031670]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Playfair, James (I)

Biographies:
(Scottish architect, 1755-1794) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Scottish architect, 1755-1794) ..... [AVERY]
(Scottish architect, 1755-1794) ..... [BHA]
(Scottish architect, 1755-1794) ..... [AVERY]
(British owner, 1755-1794) ..... [PROV]
(British artist, 1755-1794) ..... [PROV]
(Scottish architect, 1755-1794) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
James Playfair ........ [PROV, VP]
..............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Mr. Playfair ........ [PROV]
..........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Playfair ........ [PROV]
...................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Playfair, James ........ [AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred]
................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
................................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 342791

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, Gallery Systems, PROV, RKD, VP]
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Colvin
....................  Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects (1978)
....................  DNB: Oxford National Biography [online] (2004-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr93031593
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 10 June 2004
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr93031593
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 342791
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q6141324
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY]
.......... Colvin
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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