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SM SDR11. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
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John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor

Model for a first sketch of a statue of John Philip Kemble

Height: 33cm
Diameter (base): 11cm

Museum number: SDR11

On display: South Drawing Room
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Curatorial note

This is the model for the statue of the great tragedian, John Philip Kemble, in Westminster Abbey, representing him as Cato, with Plato’s treatise on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand. The statue was carried out by John E Hinchcliffe after Flaxman’s death and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1827. It was in the north transept of Westminster Abbey until 1865 when with the concurrence of the subject's niece, Miss Fanny Kemble, it was removed.

Literature

Sir J. Soane, Description, 1835, p.75
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003

Associated items

M303, same subject
M1143, same subject
BR25, same subject
BR27, same subject
P99, same subject


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