Samuel Beazley - biography
Who is Samuel Beazley?
Born in 1786 Westminster - died in 1851 Tonbridge
Samuel Beazley was an English architect, novelist and playwright. He became the leading theatre architect of his time and the first notable English expert in that field. After fighting in the Peninsular War, Beazley returned to London and quickly became a successful architect. He combined this with writing more than a hundred theatre works, generally in a comic style. He is best remembered as a theatre architect, with two major London theatres of his still surviving, together with the well-known façade of another, but he was also an important figure in railway architecture, with many commissions in the south east of England. Beazley's other activities included translating opera libretti into English, and writing novels and non-fictional works on architecture.
Recommended sights of Samuel Beazley
Artchitects with related style
- Josep Puig i Cadafalch (15)
- Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (14)
- Andrea Palladio (12)
- Lluís Domènech i Muntaner (9)
- Norman Foster (9)
- Tylman van Gameren (9)
- Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert (7)
- Giacomo della Porta (7)
- Friedrich August Stüler (7)
- Victor Horta (6)
- Sir Christopher Wren (6)
- Jacopo Sansovino (6)
- Michelangelo Buonarroti (6)
- Baldassarre Longhena (5)
- Vincenzo Scamozzi (5)
- Jean Nouvel (5)
- Bartolomeo Bon (5)
- Santiago Calatrava (5)
- Antoni Rovira i Trias (5)
- Leon Battista Alberti (4)
- Josep Domènech i Estapà (4)
- Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (4)
- Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia (4)
- Walter Gropius (4)
- Louis Delacenserie (4)
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (4)
- Hilary Majewski (4)
- Johann Christian Kammsetzer (4)
- W. G. R. Sprague (4)
- Bruno Taut (4)
- Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí (4)
- Joan Rubió i Bellver (4)
- Jules Hardouin-Mansart (4)
- Mauro Coducci (Codussi) (3)
- Giovanni Battista Meduna (3)
- Agostino Locci (3)
- Christian Frederik Hansen (3)
- Arne Emil Jacobsen (3)
- Hans Scharoun (3)
- Pierre de Meuron (3)
- Miquel Garriga i Roca (3)
- André Le Nôtre (3)
- Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (3)
- Vilhelm Dahlerup (3)
- Juan Bautista de Toledo (3)
- Hendrick de Keyser (3)
- Arnstein Arneberg (3)
- Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (3)
- Carlo Maderna (3)
- Ramón Reventós i Farrarons (3)
- Joan Martorell i Montells (3)
- Ricardo Bofill i Leví (3)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (3)
- Marc Safont (3)
- Charles-Louis Girault (3)
- Friedrich August Stüler (3)
- Gerrit Rietveld (3)
- Francesco Sabatini (3)
- Jørn Utzon (3)
- Daniel Stalpert (3)
- Konstantin Stepanovich Melnikov (3)
- Pere Domènech i Roura (3)
- Rafael Santi (3)
- Elies Rogent i Amat (3)
- Giovanni Battista di Quadro (3)
- Alfons Milà i Sagnier (3)
- Adolf Florensa i Ferrer (3)
- Frank O. Gehry (3)
- Josep Fontserè i Mestre (3)
- Giovanni Bon (3)
- Nicolai Eigtved (3)
- Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger (3)
- Helmut Jahn (3)
- Jens Zetlitz Monrad Kielland (3)
- Jacqes Herzog (3)
- Íñigo Jones (3)
- Giovanni Catenazzi (3)
- Antoni Falguera i Sivilla (3)
- Domènec Sugranyes i Gras (3)
- Antonio López Aguado (2)
- Mnesicles (2)
- Martin Wagner (2)
- Carles Buïgas i Sans (2)
- Giuseppe Valadier (2)
- Francesc Berenguer (2)
- Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (2)
- Diego Antonio Díaz (2)
- Christoph Mäckler (2)
- Enric Catà i Catà (2)
- João de Castilho (2)
- Charles Barry (2)
- Domenico Merlini (2)
- Jan Zawiejski (2)
- Peter Eisenman (2)
- Filippo Brunelleschi (2)
- Carles Galtés de Ruan (2)
- Matteo Castelli (2)
- Jurg von Halsbach (2)
- Josep Oriol Mestres i Esplugas (2)
- Josep Llimona i Bruguera (2)