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John Flaxman

1755–1826

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John Flaxman (6 July 1755 – 7 December 1826) was a British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Early in his career, he worked as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood's pottery. He spent several years in Rome, where he produced his first book illustrations. He was a prolific maker of funerary monuments.

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Woman and Child

John Flaxman
date not known
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Classical Figure Studies

John Flaxman
1792
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Alcestis and Admetus

John Flaxman
1789
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Design for a Monument to Alderman Beckford

John Flaxman
1770
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Two Girls and a Baby

John Flaxman
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Enoch. Verso: Study of a Wrestler, Design for a Madonna; Profile of a Young Man

John Flaxman
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Design for the Setting of a Classical Statue; and a Farewell Scene, Figures in Classical Costume. ?Sophocles

John Flaxman
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A Nymph with Putto

John Flaxman
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Flaxman: Understudy

Ian Stephenson
1972

Samuel Rogers at his Breakfast Table, engraved by Charles Mottram

After John Doyle, engraver Charles Mottram
c.1823

Waiting on Sir Ed. Hales at St Stephens. Caricature

John Flaxman
1775
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