Sublime Propositions
John Summerson, 17 March 1983
John Soane: The Making of an Architect
by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey.
Chicago, 408 pp., £25, November 1982,0 226 17298 8 Show More
by Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey.
Chicago, 408 pp., £25, November 1982,
“... of London. Dance gave Soane a place in his household. After three or four years he left Dance for Henry Holland, from whom he learned more of the business side of building and on whose book-keeping methods he probably modelled his own. He was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools at 18 and du Prey gives a lively picture of the Academy at this time, when ... ”