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of Drury Lane Theatre, in 1811. He built the mansion in St. James's Park for the Duke of York, now Sutherland House, Apsley House for the Duke of Wellington, 1829, Holdernesse House and Wynyard, Durham, for the Marquis of Londonderry, Crockford's Club House, St. James's Street, the York Column, 1830-33. He retired from his profession, and died in Camden Town about 1848-50. His brother, Philip Wyatt, who died in 1836, was connected with him in some of his most important works.
WYATT, Matthew Cotes, sculptor. He was the third son of James Wyatt, R.A. ; born in 1777, was educated at Eton, and studied his art in the schools of the Royal Academy. At the age of 19 he was employed, under the patronage of George III., at Windsor Castle. His first public work was the Nelson memorial on the Ex- change at Liverpool. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1804, sending some portraits in oil in that year, and in 1808 and 1810. In 1811 he exhibited a bust of the King, and the following year a ' Descent from the Cross,' a painting, but he exhibited only on one or two fur- ther occasions. He suggested, and was commissioned to execute, the cenotaph to the memory of Princess Charlotte, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor. The St. George and the Dragon in the hall is also by him. He erected the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, which has been placed over the entrance to the Green Park, at Hyde Park Corner, and for which a subscription of 30,0001. was raised ; and the equestrian statue of George III. at Pall Mall East ; also a monument to the Duchess of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle. He died in the Harrow Road, Paddington, January 3, 1862, in his 84th year, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.
WYATT, William Lewis.* architect. Was second son of Benjamin D. Wyatt, and grandson of James Wyatt, R.A., and for some time his pupil. He was architect to the Crown and the Board of Ordnance. He practised on his own account in Shrop- shire and Cheshire, and was fully employ- ed. But, possessing an independence, he preferred quiet, and, relinquishing all pro- fessional employment, retired early in life to the Isle of Wight, where he died Febru- ary 14, 1853, in his 76th year.
WYATT, Richard James, sculptor. Was born of a collateral branch of the Wyatt family, in Oxford Street, May 3, 1795. He studied in the schools of the Royal Academy, and was then placed under Rossi, R.A., tor seven years. Canova. when in this country in 1821, was pleased with him and invited, him to Rome, offering him the use of his studio. This induced him, after studying a short time in Paris, to go on to Rome, where he arrived in
1822, and from 1831 to his death regularly sent his works from thence to the exhibi- tions of the Royal Academy. He was at first employed by Gibson, R.A., but after a few years he commenced on his own ac- count, and finally settled in Rome as his adopted city. Of unusually retired habits, his whole thought and happiness centered on his art, and indefatigably studious, his career was eminently successful. Rarely attempting the heroic, he was unrivalled in his own class of subjects. His * Flora, 1
- Nymphs/ and * Penelope/ are in the royal
collection, and with his 4 Ino and the Infant Bacchus/ * Musidora/ * Shepherd Boy pro- tecting his Sister from the Storm/ may be mentioned as his best and most charac- teristic works. At the exhibition of 1851 one of the first class gold medals was, after his death, adjudged to his exhibited works. He died unmarried at Rome, where he had worked for 30 years, of apoplexy, May 28, 1850, and was buried in the English cemetery there. He had never visited England except for a few months in 1841. He attained great purity and finish; his compositions were marked by their har- mony and beauty of line, combined with great truth and nature. He had a strong feeling for the beauty of the female figure, in which he excelled."
WYATT, Sir Matthew Digby, Knt., architect. Was born near Devizes in 1820, and was the youngest son of the late Mr. Matthew Wyatt, the police magistrate of Lambeth. He was educated at j)evizes, and afterwards entered the office of his elder brother, Mr. Thomas Henry Wyatt, architect. In 1836 he obtained a prize from the Architectural Society for an essay. Proceeding to the Continent in 1845, he employed nis facile pencil in studying the buildings and antiquities of Italy, France, and Germany, and on his return published his sketches in facsimile. Later he joined the Society of Arts, and aided much in promoting the first International Exhibi- tion; ana when a royal commission was appointed to carry the idea into execution, Wyatt, with five others, was placed on an executive committee to carry on the work. After the close of the Exhibition he pub- lished the result of his observation in * The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century/ a work combining an appreciation of the beautiful with much technical knowledge. He aided Sir M. Isambard Brunei in the structural forms of the Great Western Railway Station, and on the removal of the Crystal Palace to Sydenham, was heartily occupied in its success. In company witn Mr. Owen Jones, he travelled on the Con- tinent and purchased for the Company a fine collection of architectural casts. In 1855, being a juror of the Paris Exhibition, he received from the Emperor of the French
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