George Dance the Younger practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists George Dance the Younger as English architect, surveyor and portraitist (1741–1825).
George Dance the Younger was born at City of London in 1741. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He trained at St Paul's School.
Baroque and neoclassical building served courts, churches and states, and architecture became an instrument of display.
He is recorded as architect, painter and artist.
Among his best-known works are All Hallows-on-the-Wall, Wesley's Chapel and Guildhall. Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
George Dance the Younger died in 1825, aged 84. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: All Hallows-on-the-Wall
- Notable work: Wesley's Chapel
- Notable work: Guildhall
- Trained at St Paul's School
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