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Robert Adam, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Robert Adam began working in his fatherâs architectural office in 1746. He had previously enrolled at Townâs College (now the University of Edinburgh) in 1743, but he abandoned his studies there in 1745 before joining his father, William Adam, as an apprentice and assistant the following year.1