Career
Their father, also Robert Smirke, had been a well-known 18th-century painter. Sydney Smirke"s works include:
Customs House (refronting,) Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, (1833)
The Custom House, Queen Square, Bristol (1835-1857)
Wellington Pit Surface Buildings (Whitehaven) (1840)
The nave roof of York Minster (1841)
Holy Trinity Church, Bickerstaffe, Lancashire (1843)
The Carlton Club in Pall Mall, London (1845)
The Custom House, Commercial Road, Gloucester (1845)
The dome chapel of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, Street George"s Fields, Southwark (now housing the Imperial War Museum) (1846)
The Frewen Mausoleum at Street Mary"s Church, Northiam, East Sussex (1846)
Saint James" Church, Westhead (near Ormskirk, Lancashire) (1850)
Street Mary the Virgin"s Church, Theydon Bois (1850)
The Derby Hall, Derby Hotel and Athenaeum in Bury (1849-1852. The latter two now demolished)
The circular reading room at the British Museum (1857)
Exhibition galleries at Burlington House, home o the Royal Academy (1868)
Hall of Inner Temple (1870)
Street John"s Church, Loughton
Landscaping of Brookwood Cemetery, near Woking, Surrey (with William Tite)
Toll House, Lower Sandgate Road, Folkestone
He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1847 and was elected a full Academician in 1859.
He served as Research Associate Treasurer from 1861 to 1874, and was professor of Architecture from 1860 to 1865.
Among Smirke"s numerous apprentices was the successful York architect George Fowler Jones.