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SM P60. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois RA (1756 - 1811)
A Hen Defending her Chickens from the Attack of a Cat
c. 1766-1811
Undated
Undated
Oil on canvas
Height: 37cm, sight size
Width: 98cm, sight size
Width: 98cm, sight size
Museum number: P60
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
Soane acquired this painting shortly after the completion of his first purpose-designed Pciture Room at Lincoln's Inn Fields (constructed in 1819) and it may well have hung there although it does not appear in the surviving views of the room. When the current Picture Room was built this picture was hung in its present position at the top of the east wall, facing a portrait of the artist which hangs opposite, over the entrance door.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1830, p.14
Soane, Description, 1835, p.17
New Description (guidebook), 2007, p.31
Soane, Description, 1835, p.17
New Description (guidebook), 2007, p.31
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