Wren's later life is not without criticisms …
Years: 1712 - 1712
Wren's later life is not without criticisms and attacks on his competence and his taste.
The Letter Concerning Design of Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, circulates in 1712 in manuscript.
Shaftesbury, proposing a new British style of architecture, censures Wren’s cathedral, his taste, and his long-standing control of royal works.
Wren had been appointed to the Fifty New Churches Commission in 1711, but when the surveyorship starts in 1715 will be left only with nominal charge of a board of works.
Sir Christopher Wren in Godfrey Kneller's 1711 portrait (oil on canvas; 49 in. x 39 1/2 in. (1245 mm x 1003 mm); National Portrait Gallery, London)
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Years: 1712 - 1712
Sir Christopher Wren in Godfrey Kneller's 1711 portrait (oil on canvas; 49 in. x 39 1/2 in. (1245 mm x 1003 mm); National Portrait Gallery, London)
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