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SM P147. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
William Hamilton RA (1751 - 1801)
The Landing of Richard II at Milford Haven
c.1793-1800
Oil on canvas
Height: 79.4cm
Width: 55.9cm
Width: 55.9cm
Museum number: P147
On display: Picture Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Provenance
William Hamilton painted this for Alderman Boydell's 'Shakespeare Gallery', opened in 1789; this work is not listed in the 1793 catalogue of the contents of the Shakespeare Gallery so must have been painted between that date and when it was engraved for Boydell in 1800; it was purchased by Soane at the sale of the Shakespeare Gallery at Christie's 1805.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1830, p.15
Soane, Description, 1835, p.20
Susan Feinberg Millenson, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1987, p.79
Thornton and Dorey, Miscellany, 1992, p.126
New Description, 2007, pp. 30 and 98
Soane, Description, 1835, p.20
Susan Feinberg Millenson, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1987, p.79
Thornton and Dorey, Miscellany, 1992, p.126
New Description, 2007, pp. 30 and 98
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