Isaac Ware (1704 — 1766) was an English architect and translator of Palladio. He was apprenticed to Thomas Ripley, 1 August 1721, and followed him in positions in the Office of Works, but his mentor in design was Lord Burlington. Ware was a member of the St. Martin's Lane Academy, which brought together many of the main figures in the English Rococo movement, among them Louis François Roubiliac, who sculpted Ware's portrait bust about 1741.

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  • Isaac Ware (1704 — 1766) was an English architect and translator of Palladio. He was apprenticed to Thomas Ripley, 1 August 1721, and followed him in positions in the Office of Works, but his mentor in design was Lord Burlington. Ware was a member of the St. Martin's Lane Academy, which brought together many of the main figures in the English Rococo movement, among them Louis François Roubiliac, who sculpted Ware's portrait bust about 1741. Ware was dissatisfied with the first English translation of Andrea Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, and in particular Leoni's illustrations. In 1738 Ware published his translation illustrated with his own careful engravings. Ware's version of the Four Books of Architecture remained the best English translation into the twentieth century in the opinion of Howard Colvin. "Having thoroughly assimilated Palladian theory", observed Colvin, "he looked beyond it, and in the 1740s himself helped to dissolve the dictatorship of taste that Burlington imposed in the 1720s. " Aside from his Chesterfield House, London, (1747-52; demolished 1937) with its Palladian exterior and rococo interior details, he engaged in speculative building in the West End of London and built a small number of country houses, most of which have been subsequently remodelled or demolished. Clifton Hill House, Bristol, and Wrotham Park, Barnet survive.
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  • Isaac Ware (1704 — 1766) was an English architect and translator of Palladio. He was apprenticed to Thomas Ripley, 1 August 1721, and followed him in positions in the Office of Works, but his mentor in design was Lord Burlington. Ware was a member of the St. Martin's Lane Academy, which brought together many of the main figures in the English Rococo movement, among them Louis François Roubiliac, who sculpted Ware's portrait bust about 1741.
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  • Isaac Ware
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