Matthew Digby Wyatt

Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (28 July 1820 – 21 May 1877) 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.

He assisted Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the terminus of the Great Western Railway at London Paddington (1854).

[3] 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.

There are 160 chromolithographed plates produced by a team of artists and lithographers including Francis Bedford, J.

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