John Henning Jnr
Born 8 August 1802
Died 1873
Active: 1828 - 1871
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor, modeller, architectural sculptor
Born Paisley, Scotland. He was the son of the sculptor John Henning Snr (1771-1851) who was a self-taught Scottish modeller, renowned for his miniature copies of the Parthenon frieze. His brother was Samuel Henning, a gem engraver (d.1832).
John Henning Jnr was taught by his father and showed early talent. He collaborated with his father on many works including the reproduction of the Parthenon frieze for the exterior of the Athenaeum Club and reliefs for Decimus Burton’s screen at Hyde Park.
Henning Jnr completed a number of independent commissions, including the bas-reliefs for the Manchester Institution (1836-7), and a 'Homeric Table' for the library of Lord Northwick, which was exhibited at the publisher, Herning & Remington, Regent Street in 1850. This last comprised a heavily carved (or modelled) base, with a sepia drawing of Homeric subjects protected by plate glass, which formed the top of the table. The 'Art Journal' described it as a 'beautiful table' of an unusually 'classic and fitting composition' (Minor Topics of the Month, February 1850, p. 65).
Despite such successes, Henning Junior's practice does not appear to have been as successful (critically) as his father's. This may be because he suffered an extended illness, certainly by 1871 he was a patient in St John’s Hospital, City Road, Holborn, London. He died at Holborn, London in 1873 (death given as 1855 in Roscoe, 2009).
Works
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Locations
Address 17 Lower Belgrave Place Pimlico London England | View on map
1830 (Circa) - 1852 (Circa)
Address St John's Hospital City Road London England | View on map
1871 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1828 - 1852
Exhibited 14 times, once after 1852, usually one work.
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
p. 1365
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
p. 1803
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
'Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
'Sculptor'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 605-7
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841
2010
Class: HO107; Piece 732; Book: 11; Civil Parish: St George Hanover Square; County: Middlesex; Enumeration District: 35; Folio: 6; Page: 5; Line: 1; GSU roll: 438834
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871
2004
Class: RG10; Piece: 403; Folio: 58; Page: 3; GSU roll: 824626
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Registration of death:
John Henning
Born c1802
Age 71
Apr-May-Jun 1873
Holborn, London, Middx.
Vol. 1b Page 419
Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1851
p. 1365
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p. 1803
Scotland, Select Birth and Christening Records, 1554-1950
2014
Name: John Henning
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 8 Aug 1802
Birth Place: Glasgow,Lanark,Scotland
Father: John Henning
Mother: Cathrine Sunter
FHL Film Number: 0102916, 0102915, 1042936, 0102914
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
p. 63
Citing this record
'John Henning Jnr', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib7_1218120060, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
