Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Edinburgh, for whom see Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 512.   John Henderson was a young student in Italy when Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry, who was in Rome in 1777-1778, asked him to make a design for a summer dining-room at Downhill.  He then invited JOHN SOANE JOHN SOANE , who had newly arrived in Rome, to make another proposal for the same room, which he favoured over  Henderson's.  A rumour circulated that Soane had plagiarized Henderson's design, while Soane, in response, invited an objective comparison of the two proposals.   The fall-out from this episode gave rise to considerable bad feeling between Soane and THOMAS HARDWICK THOMAS HARDWICK ,  Henderson's friend and supportrer, disrupting the good working relationship which Hardwick had previously had with Soane.(1)



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(1) For an account of the episode, see Pierre de la Ruffinière Du Prey, 'Soane and Hardwick in Rome: a Neo-Classical partnership', Architectural History XV (1972), 52.


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Building: CO. DERRY, DOWNHILL
Date: 1778
Nature: JH invited by Bishop of Derry to prepare design for summer dining-room at Downhill but subsequent design by Soane preferred.
Refs: Pierre de la Ruffinière Du Prey, 'Soane and Hardwick in Rome: a Neo-Classical partnership', Architectural History XV (1972), 52;  Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008) , 512.
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