William Wood Deane

William Wood Deane (22 March 1825 – 18 January 1873) was an English architect and painter.

Biography Early life Deane was born on 22 March 1825, in Liverpool Road, Islington, London, the third son of John Wood Deane and Anna Maria Glasse (whose father had been mayor of Barnstaple). John W. Deane while in the merchant service made a drawing from the Henry Addington of the surrender the Cape of Good Hope to the Dutch in February 1803. On 1 June 1805 he published a coloured etching of this. He afterwards became a cashier at the Bank of England and devoted all his spare time to water-colour drawing.

During the mastership of John Jackson, W. W. Deane went to the Islington proprietary school and gained prizes for mathematics, perspective, and French. He showed early a taste for drawing, but as his elder brother Dennis Wood Deane had become an artist, his father decided to make him an architect, and articled him on 7 September 1842 for four years to Herbert Williams, a surveyor. On 13 January 1844, he became an architectural student of the Royal Academy, and in December 1844 gained the silver medal. On 21 July 1845 he gained the students' book prize for a design at the Royal Institute of British Architects.