1. William Walcot was a Russian-Scottish architect, graphic artist and etcher, notable as a practitioner of refined Art Nouveau in Moscow, Russia.
14 Facts About William Walcot
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William Walcot was born in the village of Lustdorf, near Odesa in a mixed Scottish-Russian family.
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William Walcot grew up in Western Europe and South Africa, returning to Russia at the age of 17, and studied arts and architecture under Leon Benois at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.
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In 1899, William Walcot applied to the open contest with a draft codenamed A Lady's Head, earning the fourth prize and losing to Lev Kekushev.
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Participation of Victor Vesnin and Fyodor Schechtel, suggested by William Walcot Brumfield, has not been confirmed.
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Lady's Head became William Walcot's trademark, repeated in his later works, and frequently imitated by local craftsmen.
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William Walcot rarely returned to practical construction, designing only one London building: 61 St James's Street.
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Rather, William Walcot worked as an architectural draftsman, famous for his artistic presentation of other architects' designs and exhibiting his own work at the Royal Academy summer exhibitions.
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William Walcot developed his own impressionistic style in gouache and watercolour which won numerous commissions from Edwin Lutyens, Herbert Baker and Aston Webb.
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William Walcot engaged in printmaking, creating reconstructions of ancient Greek, Roman, Babylonian and Egyptian buildings.
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William Walcot was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913, as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1916 and a Fellow of the RIBA in 1922.
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William Walcot was an associate of the British School at Rome.
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William Walcot's painting and etchings are frequently exhibited; his painting palette is preserved at the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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William Walcot had a retrospective exhibition at the Fine Arts Society in 1974.