The Building of Westminster Bridge is an oil on canvas riverscape painting by the English artist Samuel Scott, from 1742.

It was built from the centre outwards and by the time Scott sketched it is had four arches under construction.

[3] Scott was a pioneering British maritime painter who increasingly turned to views of Thames.

[5] It is viewed from a timber yard on the southern bank of the Thames and features two engineering innovations used on the project, a sinking caisson and a horse-powered pile driver.

One held by the Yale Center for British Art is notable for including both the towers under construction at Westminster Abbey and a planned spire that was never actually built.