Blog | Sir John Soane's Museum

Hogarth: 101

With our forthcoming exhibition Hogarth: Place and Progress under a month away, we give a brief introduction to the cutting satire of William Hogarth.

‘Let there be light’: The drawings for Soane’s London Churches

Trainee Drawings Cataloguer Roberto Rossi reviews the London churches drawings as a body of work in themselves.

Conserving the Reynolds Frame: Conservation underway

Following the success of the campaign to #SaveTheFrame, we’ve removed The Snake in the Grass from the walls of the Museum in order for conservation to begin.

Conserving the Reynolds Frame: A second layer of gilding discovered

Our conservators have made a series of exciting discoveries during the first phases of conservation.

‘A Monstrous Excrescence’ or Stroke of Genius: The Tower at St John’s, Bethnal Green, London

Trainee Drawings Cataloguer looks at the changing designs for St John's, Bethnal Green.

An introduction to Postmodernism

Visitors can encounter robot columns, mirror chairs and

Conserving the frame of Soane's portrait

The magnificent portrait of Sir John Soane painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence has been rehung in its original, newly-restored frame. We caught up with Jane Wilkinson, Head of Conservation, to get an insight into the laborious process of conserving a 19th-century frame.

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