Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

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Brunel was one of the principal engineers and inventors of the Regency period. Born in France, he fled the French Revolution in 1793, going to America before arriving 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 and difficult project, the Thames Tunnel from Rotherhithe to Wapping (1825–1843), the first tunnel ever built under a navigable river.
On the table are some of Brunel's inventions; a miner's safety lamp, a cotton-winding machine and a model of a lighthouse. The background view of the Thames Tunnel is based on a painting by Thomas Bury.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Sir Marc Isambard Brunel

Date

c.1835

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 127 x W 101.6 cm

Accession number

89

Acquisition method

Purchased, 1859

Work type

Painting

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