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SM P148. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
John Jackson RA (1778 - 1831)
Portrait of Mrs Soane with 'Fanny' on her lap
1831
Oil on panel
Height: 61cm
Width: 47cm
Width: 47cm
Museum number: P148
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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Curatorial note
This posthumous portrait of Eliza Soane was painted as a pendant to that of her husband in masonic robes, also by Jackson (SM P142). The sketch by their friend John Flaxman on which it is based hangs in the South Drawing Room (SM P225) and was probably made in the early 1800s. It is also said to have been drawn in part from a miniature of Eliza, probably SDR21.31, showing her at around the time of her marriage to Soane in 1784.
Provenance
Commissioned by John Soane in 1828 as a pendant to his own portrait by Jackson (SM P142). Soane recorded on 12 June 1828 that he paid Jackson £105 for a portrait of himself and one of his wife. The 1840 paintings inventory at the Soane Museum records 'This picture was commenced by Jackson, a short time previous to his death in 1831 from a pencil sketch by the late Flaxman and a drawing by Mr. Dance [George Dance]'. The earliest Museum inventory, 1837, notes that it is an unfinished portrait.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1830, p.41.
Soane, Description, 1835, p.21.
New Description, 2007, p. 30.
Soane, Description, 1835, p.21.
New Description, 2007, p. 30.
Exhibition history
A Terrier's Tale: The Manchester Terrier Through History, Kennel Club Art Gallery, 6 February - 29 June 2012
Associated items
P225, same subject
SDR21.31, same subject
P142, pair
P159, same subject
P189, same subject
MY4, same subject
SDR21.31, same subject
P142, pair
P159, same subject
P189, same subject
MY4, same subject
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