George Richardson (architect)

Richardson spent three years, from 1760 to 1763, travelling in Dalmatia and Istria, in the south of France and in Italy.

[2] Richardson's work was so closely allied to that of the brothers Adam that it is often difficult to distinguish between them.

Many of its drawings are tasteful, and his fireplace work, as represented by his Collection of Chimneypieces Ornamented in the Style of the Etruscan, Greek and Roman Architecture (1781), is equally attractive.

Like the Adams, Richardson often worked with composition enrichments, and his New Designs in Architecture (1792) contains many drawings of interior friezes and columns to be executed either in this medium or painted to suit the wall hangings.

[2] His principal works in addition to those mentioned above were: He also published volumes dealing with vases and tripods, antique friezes and other architectural and decorative details.