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Article: Museum accessions. (neoclassical cabinets acquired by Carnegie Museum of Art; pre-Raphaelite chairs featured in theater and at the Delaware Art Museum)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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In 1769 the wealthy young Welsh nobleman Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1749-1789) returned from a grand tour of the Continent enthralled by the art of Italy and ancient Rome. Soon thereafter he married and bought a house on fashionable Saint James's square in London, which in 1772 he commissioned Robert Adam to rebuild and decorate in the neoclassical taste. Himself enraptured of the classical idiom in both art and architecture and with money no object, Adam produced for the Wynns one of his most perfect interiors, lavish and harmonious.
Among the final touches was a pair of cabinets (one of which is illustrated here) designed to occupy arched niches flanking the ...
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