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John Dibblee Crace (1838 – 18 November 1919) was a distinguished British interior designer who provided decorative schemes for the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Royal Academy, Tyntesfield and Longleat among many other notable buildings. ==Life and work== Crace was the eldest of eleven surviving children of John Gregory Crace (1809–1889), interior decorator and author, and his wife, Sarah Jane Hine Langley (1815–1894), the daughter of John Inwood Langley (1790–1874) of Greenwich, a civil servant at the Royal Naval Hospital. His father was renowned as a decorator who was in partnership for eight years with A.W.N. Pugin, the eminent Gothic revival architect, and was head of a decorating firm founded in 1768 by his great-great-grandfather Edward Crace, a coach-decorator and keeper of the king's pictures. Edward and his son Frederick were responsible for the decoration of Brighton Pavilion and other Royal palaces. Crace came to fame with his Victorian Gothic and Renaissance-style furniture which he exhibited at the International Exhibition in 1862.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Design for a Fireplace )〕 Crace decorated the interior of Two Temple Place, William Waldorf Astor's London estate office, in the style of French Renaissance from about 1892 to 1895. For Astor, he also designed furniture and decorated the home in Cliveden.〔Campbell, Gordon. (2006). ''The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts: Two-volume Set, Volume 1''. Oxford University Press. pp. 281-282. ISBN 0195189485.〕 He similarly redecorated Longleat for John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath.〔 Considered the acme of 'High Victorianism', he designed decorative schemes for the main entrance of the National Gallery.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Case Studies: The National Gallery )〕 Crace decorated the Royal Academy's Fine Rooms, but a painting by William Kent lies beneath his work. He is buried with others of the Crace dynasty at West Norwood Cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Dibblee Crace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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