10 Works, Today, January 31st. is artist Henry Howard’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #031
Jan 31, 2021
Pandora, whom the assembled Gods/ endowed with all their gifts…, c. 1834
Oil on mahogany panel
H 82 x W 249 cm
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Henry Howard RA (31 January 1769–5 October 1847) was an early 19th-century British portrait and history painter.
He was born in London and after being educated at a school in Hounslow, he started studying with the painter Philip Reinagle in 1786. In 1788 he began attending the Royal Academy Schools and was awarded a silver medal for drawing from life and a gold medal for historical painting for his Caractacus Recognising the Dead Body of his Son…