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Bust of John Philiip Kemble. SM M1143. Photograph taken December 3rd 1947. ©A.C. Cooper (Colour) Ltd
John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor
Cast from a bust of the late John Philip Kemble, c.1826
Plaster cast
Height: 39cm
Width: 27.5cm
Depth: 23.3cm
Width: 27.5cm
Depth: 23.3cm
Museum number: M1143
On display: Colonnade - central aisle
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 cast was probably prepared in connection with the monument to Kemble (who died in 1823) in Westminster Abbey, on which Flaxman was working at the time of his death in 1826. Soane had the opportunity to select any works he wanted from Flaxman’s studio, and chose this amongst a number of others depicting famous contemporaries. In his lifetime this cast was displayed in the Colonnade at the back of the Museum.
Literature
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
Exhibition history
'The Cloud-Capped Towers': Shakespeare in Soane's Architectural Imagination, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 21 April - 8 October 2016
Associated items
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