Regency Portraits Catalogue
John Rennie Sr (1761-1821), Civil engineer; father of Sir John Rennie Jr
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Civil engineer and builder of bridges, canals and breakwaters - Waterloo Bridge 1810-17, Southwark Bridge 1815-19, and London Bridge finished after his death by his sons.
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Boucher 1963Cyril Boucher, John Rennie, 1963.
Smiles 1862
Samuel Smiles, Lives of the Engineers, II, 1862.
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.