By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.8.A. 17 
name, for some reason or other, had found its way to Caius College : 
for Dr. Duearel, of the Society of Antiquaries, says in a letter to 
Mr. Lethieullier, 1750, October 24th :—“ In Caius College I saw this 
summer the picture of John of Padua, a famous architect who built 
that college and [old] Somerset House, on the old front of which 
next the Strand remain to this day some old Doric columns like 
those at Caius.” Here, as the late Dr. Guest of that college in- 
formed me, Dr. Ducarel was mistaken: the portrait is that of 
Theodore Have, an architect from Cleves, who worked at the building 
of the college with Dr. Caius himself.' 
Some, again, in a despairing effort to make out who John of 
Padua was, have suggested that he was no other than the celebrated 
English architect John Thorpe, who, after studying abroad at Padua, 
on returning home may have adopted the name of the city instead of 
his own. The late John Britton, in his “ Dictionary of Architecture,”? 
considers this notion strengthened “by the fact that plans of Somerset 
House, in London, and Longleat, the most generally acknowledged 
works of John of Padua, are among Thorpe’s drawings in the Soane 
Museum.” Here Mr. Britton was certainly in error, as to Longleat. 
In the list of contents of Thorpe’s volume of drawings, given by 
Dallaway, the name of Longleat does not appear: and I have myself 
searched the volume very carefully, and was unable to find any plans 
or portions of plans of Longleat in it. That John Thorpe was 
John of Padua seems to be a mere idle guess which may be at once 
dismissed. 
So again, the question recurs, ‘‘ Who could he be?” 
One, and perhaps the principal reason, why those who have tried 
1 This portrait is thus described by Walpole (“Anecdotes of Painting,” i., 
p. 323, Dallaway’s Edit., 1828) :—“ An old picture (bad at first and now almost 
effaced by cleaning) of a man in a slashed doublet, dark curled hair and beard, 
looking like a foreigner, and holding a pair of compasses, and by his side a 
polyhedron, composed of twelve pentagons. This is undoubtedly Theodore Have 
himself.” Be this as it may, it used to be called “John of Padua”: and all 
I care about it is that the curious “ polyhedron with twelve pentagons,” painted 
in the corner, may presently help me to account for that person’s name being 
met with at all in connection with Caius College. 
; 2 Under the head of ** Padua, John of.” 
8 “ Walpole’s Anecdotes of Painting,” vol. i., p. 330. 
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