Regency Portraits Catalogue

William Jessop (1745-1814), Civil engineer

An oil by Edwin Williams was presented to the Institution of Civil Engineers by Jessop's son, reproduced in Smiles, Lives of the Engineers, 1862, II, p 198.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.