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Matthew Digby Wyatt
Matthew Digby Wyatt

Matthew Digby Wyatt

English, 1820-1877
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Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition, Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. From 1855 until 1859 he was honorary secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and in 1866 received the Royal Gold Medal.

Born in Rowde, Wiltshire, Wyatt trained as an architect in the office of his elder brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt. He assisted Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the terminus of the Great Western Railway at London Paddington (1854). He also enlarged and rebuilt Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge (1866: now the Judge Institute of Management). He designed the Rothschild Mausoleum in the Jewish Cemetery at West Ham.

In 1851, Wyatt produced the book The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century, an imposing imperial folio in two volumes which illustrates a selection of items from the Great Exhibition of 1851. The book, which has won widespread acclaim for the quality of its plates, appeared in two parts, with the first dated 1 October 1851, through to the extra-illustrated title pages dated 15 March 1853. There are 160 chromolithographed plates produced by a team of artists and lithographers including Francis Bedford, J. A. Vinter and Henry Rafter.

He was appointed to the post of Surveyor of the East India Company in 1855, shortly before its role in governing India was taken over by the Crown, and subsequently became Architect to the Council of India. In this role he designed the interiors of the India Office in London (1867: now part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) and the Royal Indian Engineering College (1871-3: now the Runnymede campus of Brunel University).

A paper on the construction of the exhibition building read before the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1866 was awarded the Telford medal.

His work included, c. 1869, a substantial private residence, known as 'Newells', not far from Leonardslee at Lower Beeding, near Horsham in Sussex, as mentioned in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6. Newells had been occupied as a preparatory school for boys from 1946 until destroyed by fire in 1968. Photographic images of the exterior and interior of the house, when occupied by the prep. school, can be seen at an external link given in the article 'Newells Preparatory School'. His other commissions in Sussex included Possingworth Manor and Oldlands near Herron's Ghyll.

Amongst the extravagant pieces he worked on was Robert Stephenson Works of Newcastle upon Tyne 1295 of 1862. This 2-2-4T for the Egyptian Railways survives with all its fantastical marquetry in the Egyptian Railway Museum in Cairo. It is called the Khedive's Train.

In 1870, for the Secretary of State for India, Wyatt oversaw the conversion of the Elm Grove House estate at Hanwell into the new Royal India Asylum, which opened in August 1870.

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Indian elephant trapping

Indian elephant trapping (1851 - 1853)

Matthew Digby Wyatt (English, 1820-1877)
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Indian embroidery in white silk on black net.

Indian embroidery in white silk on black net. (1851 - 1853)

Matthew Digby Wyatt (English, 1820-1877)
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Indian embroidery on black cloth

Indian embroidery on black cloth (1851 - 1853)

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Indian embroidery on crimson silk

Indian embroidery on crimson silk (1851 - 1853)

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Indian kincob pattern – woven at Ahmedabad

Indian kincob pattern – woven at Ahmedabad (1851 - 1853)

Matthew Digby Wyatt (English, 1820-1877)
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Indian kinkaub pattern

Indian kinkaub pattern (1851 - 1853)

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Indian scarf end embroidered at Dacca on white muslin

Indian scarf end embroidered at Dacca on white muslin (1851 - 1853)

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Ivory throne and footstool, presented to her majesty the queen, by his highness the rajah of Travencore

Ivory throne and footstool, presented to her majesty the queen, by his highness the rajah of Travencore (1851 - 1853)

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Jewelery by Rudolphi of Paris

Jewelery by Rudolphi of Paris (1851 - 1853)

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Jewellery designed by Pugin and executed by Hardman of Birmingham

Jewellery designed by Pugin and executed by Hardman of Birmingham (1851 - 1853)

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Luca-della-Robbia friezes

Luca-della-Robbia friezes (1851 - 1853)

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Machine made lace

Machine made lace (1851 - 1853)

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Marqueterie enrichments of a piano-forte

Marqueterie enrichments of a piano-forte (1851 - 1853)

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Metal bedstead

Metal bedstead (1851 - 1853)

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Niche and figure, carved in wood

Niche and figure, carved in wood (1851 - 1853)

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Objects in silver

Objects in silver (1851 - 1853)

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Objects selected from a dessert service presented by her majesty the queen to the emperor of Austria

Objects selected from a dessert service presented by her majesty the queen to the emperor of Austria (1851 - 1853)

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Ornamental cover of a colour box

Ornamental cover of a colour box (1851 - 1853)

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Painted arabesque

Painted arabesque (1851 - 1853)

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Palermo, from the King’s seat in the cathedral at Monreale

Palermo, from the King’s seat in the cathedral at Monreale (1848)

Matthew Digby Wyatt (English, 1820-1877)
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Panel in Buhl

Panel in Buhl (1851 - 1853)

Matthew Digby Wyatt (English, 1820-1877)
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Paper hanging by Hinchliffe & co. of London

Paper hanging by Hinchliffe & co. of London (1851 - 1853)

Matthew Digby Wyatt (English, 1820-1877)
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Paper hanging by Woollams of London

Paper hanging by Woollams of London (1851 - 1853)

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Paper hanging executed by Townsend & Parker of London

Paper hanging executed by Townsend & Parker of London (1851 - 1853)

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Paper hangings by Mader fréres of Paris

Paper hangings by Mader fréres of Paris (1851 - 1853)

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Pavement in encaustic tiles

Pavement in encaustic tiles (1851 - 1853)

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Pendant lamp by Matifat of Paris

Pendant lamp by Matifat of Paris (1851 - 1853)

Matthew Digby Wyatt (English, 1820-1877)
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Pendant lamp in Sevres porcelain

Pendant lamp in Sevres porcelain (1851 - 1853)

Matthew Digby Wyatt (English, 1820-1877)
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Pianofortes by Collard & Collard of London

Pianofortes by Collard & Collard of London (1851 - 1853)

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Pilaster in carton pierre

Pilaster in carton pierre (1851 - 1853)

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