National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, limited · leaf 196
ed to the Professorship of Astronomy inGresham College, which he retained until his appointment to theSavilian Chair at Oxford, in 1661. Wren was one of the originalfounders of the Royal Society4 His most famous work, the re-building of St. Pauls Cathedral, was commenced in 1675, and thelast and… … 182 THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. JOHN DRYDEN. i<>31-1700. Painted b) James Maubert. Poet, political writer, and dramatist. His earliest work of im-portance, Heroic Stanzas on the late Lord Protector, was fol-lowed, in 1660, by Astrsea Redux, commemorating the Restora-tion of King Charles…
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