罗伯特·威廉·比林斯
地形绘图与建筑古迹插画师
罗伯特·威廉·比林斯是一位英国建筑师和作家。他接受过地形绘图员的训练,在职业生涯早期撰写并插图了许多书籍,随后专注于他的建筑实践。 比林斯于1812年出生于伦敦的贝斯沃特地区。十三岁时,他师从地形绘图员约翰·布里顿,学徒期为七年。1837年,他为乔治·戈德温的《圣保罗大教堂历史与描述》绘制插图;两年后,他与弗雷德里克·麦肯齐合作,为戈德温的《伦敦教堂》两卷本绘制插图。他曾协助杰弗里·怀亚特维尔爵士绘制温莎城堡的图纸,并在议会大厦旧楼火灾后绘制了许多废墟景观图。 The works he undertook on his own account included Illustrations of the Temple Church, London, (1838); Gothic Panelling in Brancepeth Church, Durham (1841) and Kettering Church, Northamptonshire (1843). He produced important works on Carlisle Cathedral and Durham Cathedral, published in 1840 and 1843, and Illustrations of the Architectural Antiquities of the County of Durham (1846). The work for which he became best known was The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, published in four volumes between 1845 and 1852, which contained 240 illustrations, with explanatory text. The work was a great success and was reprinted several times, in 1899, 1900, 1901, 1908, 1909, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In the 1901 edition it was revealed that all the commentaries were written by John Hill Burton, the edition included a foreword by Robert Rowand Anderson. Anderson wrote in the foreword of it being "in the front rank of Architectural publications, and from this position it has yet to be displaced." 他的其他出版作品包括《试图定义哥特式建筑的几何比例,以卡莱尔和伍斯特大教堂为例》(1840年)、《几何花饰图解,源自卡莱尔大教堂的镶板》(1842年)、《几何设计的无限性例证》(1849年)以及《形式之力应用于几何花饰》(1851年)。 最终,他放弃了作家身份,全身心投入到建筑实践中。他受雇参与爱丁堡城堡礼拜堂的修复工程(一项政府委托项目);斯特灵城堡的道格拉斯房间;为韦姆斯伯爵在哈丁顿郡建造的戈斯福德府邸;伍斯特郡汉伯里大厅的修复工程;坎伯兰郡的克罗斯比-on-伊登教堂;以及威尔特郡的肯布尔府邸和牧师住宅。1865年,比林斯在卡莱尔公墓为同为建筑师彼得·尼科尔森(1765–1844)树立了一座不同寻常的纪念碑,其形式为一对相互穿插的方尖碑。 从1865年起,比林斯居住在普特尼,在那里他购买了穆利内尔宅邸,这所房子曾由马尔博罗公爵夫人居住。他于1874年11月14日在那里去世。
Relationship Network
Master student
- Sir Jeffry Wyattville Master
Fellow student
Artworks by this artist (10 total)
- Vestiges of Sculpture and Painting in St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster 1836
- Convert Garden Theatre, London
- Caerlaverock Castle Entrance Gateway and Flanking Towers 1848
- Elevation, Section and Plan, of One Compartment (of Three) of the Screen, St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster 1835
- Caerlaverock Castle (General View) 1848
- Window of the Crypt of St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster 1835
- Staircase at Southeast Angle, Painted Chamber, Westminster 1835
- Court Yard of Caerlaverock Castle 1848
- Ruins of St Stephen’s Chapel, Seen from the Roof of Westminster Hall 1835
- St. Saviour’s Church, Southwark-View of the Nave 1834