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SM P253. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK

William Hilton RA (1786 - 1839)

Marc Anthony reading Caesar's Will

1834

Oil on canvas

Height: 117cm
Width: 92cm

Museum number: P253

Not on display

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Commissioned by Soane from the artist (Soane Archive correspondence and Soane Note Book, 9 May 1834).

Literature

Soane, Description, 1835, p.70
Thornton and Dorey, Miscellany, 1992, p.126
Jordana Pomeroy, '"To comprehend the excellencies of that performance" Sebastiano del Piombo's Raising of Lazarus comes to England', The British Art Journal, Vol. II, No. 4, 2001, pp.63-68, ill. fig. 6
DNB, entry on William Hilton


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