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When did Christopher Wren become the king’s surveyor of works?
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Christopher Wren
Sir Christopher Wren, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Christopher Wren became the king’s surveyor of works in 1669, following the death of the previous officeholder.1