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SM P3. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
Henry Howard RA (1769 - 1847)
The Three Horae or Seasons
1834
Oil on mahogany panel
Height: 35cm
Width: 171.8cm
Width: 171.8cm
Museum number: P3
On display: Library-Dining Room - ceiling
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
Fixed within a recess in the ceiling of the Library; held in place by ball moulding surrounding the panel. The 1837 inventory describes it as 'On mahogany panel, in gilt frame'.
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist in 1834.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1835, p.7
Bolton, A. T. (ed.), Portrait, 1927
Bryan's Dictionary of painters and engravers, 1904
Haydon, B. R., Autobiography and Memoirs, 1926
Mattenklot, G., 'Krug, Buchse und Kastchen Bilker Pandora', Austria, 1992, ill. 13
Panofsky, D. and E., Pandora's Box, London, 1956, reprd. figs. 50 and 51
Redgrave, R. and S., A century of British Painters, London, 1947
Summerson, J. and Watkin, D., John Soane, Academy Editions, London, 1983, ill. 20
Watkin, D., Sir John Soane, Enlightenment Thought and Royal Academy Lectures, 1996, pp. 417-418
Bolton, A. T. (ed.), Portrait, 1927
Bryan's Dictionary of painters and engravers, 1904
Haydon, B. R., Autobiography and Memoirs, 1926
Mattenklot, G., 'Krug, Buchse und Kastchen Bilker Pandora', Austria, 1992, ill. 13
Panofsky, D. and E., Pandora's Box, London, 1956, reprd. figs. 50 and 51
Redgrave, R. and S., A century of British Painters, London, 1947
Summerson, J. and Watkin, D., John Soane, Academy Editions, London, 1983, ill. 20
Watkin, D., Sir John Soane, Enlightenment Thought and Royal Academy Lectures, 1996, pp. 417-418
Exhibition history
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1835
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