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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) was the son of the French draughtsman Augustus Charles Pugin (1769–1832). A precocoious child, he was already designing furniture for Windsor Castle when barely into his teens. After his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1833 he wrote several books on architecture demanding the use of Gothic as the only appropriate style of architecture for a Christian country, which continued to influence architects for the rest of the nineteenth century. He designed schools and country houses, of which the most important was Alton Towers, Staffordshire (1840) but his most important works were ecclesiastical and almost all Catholic. His most important joint commission was the Palace of Westminster, begun in 1840, with Sir Charles Barry.
The Royal Institute of British Architects
London
Title
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852)
Date
c.1820
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 66 x W 40 cm
Accession number
PCF77
Acquisition method
unknown acquisition method
Work type
Painting
