Name: How Monet’s love, Waterloo Bridge, was killed by London Bridge
Start: 2026-04-18T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-18T13:00:00+01:00
Location: The Thorney Island Society

$How Monet\u2019s love, Waterloo Bridge, was killed by London Bridge$

Discover the wild story behind Monet’s Waterloo Bridge and how London Bridge totally changed the game.
About this Event

The extraordinary tale of how John Rennie’s beautiful Waterloo Bridge - called “the noblest in the world” by the Italian sculptor Canova - and painted many times by Monet, was pulled down because of the unforeseen effects on the tide of Rennie’s earlier work, a replacement of the ancient London Bridge.

Victor Keegan is a former Guardian journalist who has written three books on Lost London including his latest published this year “Thorney, London‘s forgotten Island“

More information: https://tinyurl.com/mvsk8469