Regency Portraits Catalogue
John Nash (1752-1835), Architect
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Architect to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues in which capacity he laid out Regent's Park and Regent Street (1811-33); as private architect to the Prince Regent, later George IV, he designed the Brighton Pavilion (1814-21) and Buckingham Palace (1822-30).
In a letter to Soane in 1822 Nash described his own 'thick, squat, dwarf figure, with round head, snub nose and little eyes' (Bolton, Portrait of Sir John Soane, 1927, p 353).
In a letter to Soane in 1822 Nash described his own 'thick, squat, dwarf figure, with round head, snub nose and little eyes' (Bolton, Portrait of Sir John Soane, 1927, p 353).
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Colvin 1978H. M. Colvin, Dictionary of British Architects, 1978.
Davis 1966
T. Davis, John Nash, 1966.
Summerson 1935
John Summerson, John Nash Architect to King George IV, 1935.
Summerson 1980
John Summerson, The Life and Works of John Nash Architect, 1980 with a list of portraits on p 195.
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.