Portraits Collection

Choose a picture from our Portraits Collection for your Wall Art and Photo Gifts

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Portraits Collection: IK Brunel - Be the first engineer and an example for future ones quote

IK Brunel - Be the first engineer and an example for future ones quote
On the night of the 13th October 1827 IK Brunel recorded in his private diary, known as the Locked Diary, his hopes and fears for the future

Portraits Collection: Launch of the SS Great Eastern, 1857

Launch of the SS Great Eastern, 1857
From an album of photographs relating to the construction of SS Great Eastern. Black & white photograph of I.K. Brunel standing in front of SS Great Easterns launching chains, smoking cigar

Portraits Collection: Brunel - you have wasted more of my time than your whole life is worth quote

Brunel - you have wasted more of my time than your whole life is worth quote
In the 1830s IK Brunel had an assistant called FC Fripp. In one letter to Fripp Brunel writes Fripp. Plain gentlemanly language seems to have no effect on you

Portraits Collection: Brunel - you are a cursed lazy inattentive apathetic vagabond quote

Brunel - you are a cursed lazy inattentive apathetic vagabond quote
In the 1830s IK Brunel had an assistant called FC Fripp. In one letter to Fripp Brunel writes Fripp. Plain gentlemanly language seems to have no effect on you

Portraits Collection: Brunel - Nil Desperandum has always been my motto - we may succeed yet. Perseverantia

Brunel - Nil Desperandum has always been my motto - we may succeed yet. Perseverantia
On the 6th December 1831 IK Brunel wrote in his dairy about the Thames Tunnel project that he has been working on with his father, Marc Brunel - Tunnel is now I think dead

Portraits Collection: Francis Pettit Smith, Captain Barnard R. Matthews and officers of the SS Great Britain, 1852

Francis Pettit Smith, Captain Barnard R. Matthews and officers of the SS Great Britain, 1852
Print depicting Francis Pettit Smith, inventor of the screw propeller, and Captain Barnard Matthews and officers of the SS Great Britain

Portraits Collection: Robert Stephenson portrait

Robert Stephenson portrait
Half length portrait of Robert Stephenson, an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. He and IK Brunel were professional rivals, but close personal friends

Portraits Collection: Sir Marc Brunel portrait

Sir Marc Brunel portrait
Seated portrait of Sir Marc Brunel, father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Engraved by C. Turner, based on the painting by James Northcote

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