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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

(1769-1849), Civil engineer

Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter in 11 portraits
Brunel was one of the principal engineers and inventors of the Regency period. Born in France, he fled the French Revolution in 1793 and settled in England in 1799. A prolific inventor, Brunel devised power-driven machines for sawing timber, knitting stockings and mass-producing ships' rigging blocks. He improved the docks at Chatham and Liverpool before taking on his most important project, the Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping (1825-43), the first tunnel built under a navigable river.

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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, by Samuel Drummond - NPG 89

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

by Samuel Drummond
oil on canvas, circa 1836
On display in Room 16 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 89

Men of Science Living in 1807-8, by Sir John Gilbert, and  Frederick John Skill, and  William Walker, and  Elizabeth Walker (née Reynolds) - NPG 1075

Men of Science Living in 1807-8

by Sir John Gilbert, and Frederick John Skill, and William Walker, and Elizabeth Walker (née Reynolds)
pencil and wash, 1858-1862
NPG 1075

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, by Charles Turner, after  James Northcote - NPG D32248

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

by Charles Turner, after James Northcote
mezzotint, published 1815
NPG D32248

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, by J. Carter, after  Samuel Drummond - NPG D32247

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

by J. Carter, after Samuel Drummond
mezzotint, published 1846
NPG D32247

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Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

mezzotint, published 30 March 1815
NPG D49691

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