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Reginald Blomfield (1856–1942) was a colourful and pugnacious character whose success and eminent career as an architect and writer on architecture concealed the fact that he was a second-rater. His most exciting and progressive design work was produced when he was in his 20s and the rest of his career shows an aesthetic decline into feeble conservatism and a growing reputation for angry and spluttering rants against Modernism. As Chief Architect to the War Graves Commission, he designed the imposing Menin Gate at Ypres (1923), commemorating the British dead of the First World War without known graves. In the 1890s, he published books on formal gardens and English Renaissance architecture that earned him many commissions for altering old or building new country houses.
The Royal Institute of British Architects
London
Title
Sir Reginald Blomfield (1856–1942), RA, PRIBA
Date
1915
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 89 x W 68.5 cm
Accession number
PCF1
Acquisition method
commissioned by the RIBA
Work type
Painting
The Royal Institute of British Architects
66 Portland Place, London, Greater London W1B 1AD England
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