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Inigo Jones

English architect and artist
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Curator, Sir John Soane's House and Museum, London, 1945–84. Author of Inigo Jones; Sir Christopher Wren; and others.
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Born:
July 15, 1573, Smithfield, London, Eng.
Died:
June 21, 1652, London (aged 78)

Inigo Jones (born July 15, 1573, Smithfield, London, Eng.—died June 21, 1652, London) was a British painter, architect, and designer who founded the English classical tradition of architecture. The Queen’s House (1616–19) at Greenwich, London, his first major work, became a part of the National Maritime Museum in 1937. His greatest achievement is the Banqueting House (1619–22) at Whitehall. Jones’s only other surviving royal building is the Queen’s Chapel (1623–27) at St. James’s Palace. Jones was the son of a cloth worker also called Inigo. Of the architect’s early life little is recorded, but he was probably apprenticed to a ...(100 of 1332 words)

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