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Sir John Soane

Image credit: National Portrait Gallery, London

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An architect and collector, Soane was the son of a bricklayer who began his education in the architectural office of George Dance, one of the leading neoclassical architects of the day. In 1771, he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools where he won a gold medal for his design for a triumphal bridge (1776) and a scholarship to study in Italy (1778–1781). In 1788, he was appointed Surveyor to the Bank of England. Many other public and private commissions followed, among them Dulwich Picture Gallery (1811–1814). The security of this position allowed him to develop his highly idiosyncratic architectural vision. He gave his house and important works of art to the nation as the Sir John Soane’s Museum. By 1828, the year in which this portrait was painted, Sir John Soane, the hard-working and brilliant architect of the Bank of England, had grown melancholy as well as rich.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Sir John Soane

Date

1828

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 74.9 x W 62.2 cm

Accession number

701

Acquisition method

Transferred from the Tate Gallery, 1957

Work type

Painting

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