Henry Howard (artist)

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.

He illustrated Sharpe's British Essayists and Du Roveray's edition of Alexander Pope's translation of Homer.

In 1809 he exhibited Christ Blessing Young Children, which later became the altarpiece of St. Luke's, in Berwick St, Soho, London (demolished 1936).

[4] His history paintings are hard to find on public display but his ceiling for the dining-room of the Sir John Soane's Museum, an Aurora adapted from Guido Reni (1837), can be seen obliquely.

He painted large transparencies, apparently to be lighted from behind, for the "Grand Revolving Temple of Concord" built in Green Park for the visit of several sovereigns to celebrate (prematurely) the defeat of Napoleon.