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Howard was a portrait and history painter who was a close friend of Sir John Soane. He started studying with the painter Philip Reinagle in 1786 and from 1788 was a student at the Royal Academy Schools where he was awarded a silver medal for life drawing and then the gold medal for history painting. He became a full member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1808 and exhibited there until his death. In 1811 he became Secretary of the Academy and in 1833 he was appointed Professor of Painting. During the 1830s, when Soane's failing sight prevented him from delivering his Royal Academy lectures, Howard read them for him. Amongst Howard's works are portraits of the sculptor of this bust, John Flaxman, Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Arts, and his wife Anne, perhaps painted at around the time that this terracotta was modelled.
Sir John Soane’s Museum
London
Title
Henry Howard (1769–1847)
Medium
terracotta
Measurements
H 22.9 x W 10.8 x D (?) cm
Accession number
BR21
Acquisition method
acquired from Flaxman's sister-in-law, Maria Denman, 1836
Work type
Bust
Sir John Soane’s Museum
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, Greater London WC2A 3BP England
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