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Image bank: Sir Christopher Wren portrait

Sir Christopher Wren by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711, NPG 113

In 1711, the year this portrait was made, the architect Sir Christopher Wren was seventy-nine and had finally completed his masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral. Wren's magnificent new structure replaced the original Elizabethan cathedral which had burnt down during the Great Fire of London.

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Sir Christopher Wren portrait
 
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