General description of Sir John Soane's Museum : with brief notices of some of the more interesting works of art.

  • Sir John Soane's Museum
Date:
1905
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Credit: General description of Sir John Soane's Museum : with brief notices of some of the more interesting works of art. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SIR JOHN SOANE, R.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., w.as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London; Architect to the Bank of England, of which establishment he designed the present four facades, as well as the rotunda, and most of the public offices. He was also one of the Architects attached to the former Office of Works under the Crown; Architect to the College of Surgeons; Grand Superintendent of Works of the United Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of England; Member of the Academies of Vienna, Parma, &c. He was extensively employed, and highly distinguished, in his profession during the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the last century. He was born near Reading, September 10, 1753 ; and died at his house. No. 13, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, on January 20, 1837, aged 83 years. In the year 1833 Sir John Soane obtained an Act of Parliament (3 Will. IV, cap. 4), intituled ‘ An Act for settling and preserving Sir John Soane’s Museum, Library, and Works of Art, in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, in the county of Middlesex, for the benefit of the Public, and for establishing a sufficient Endowment for the due maintenance of the same.’ On the decease of Sir John Soane on January 20, 1837, the Act came into operation; the Trustees named therein entered on their trust, and im- mediately took the necessary steps for carrying
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