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John Flaxman

1755–1826

Ulysses Departing from Lacedaemon for Ithaca, with his Bride Penelope 1805
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177 artworks by John Flaxman
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Biography

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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Neoclassicism

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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
    date not known
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  • Enoch. Verso: Study of a Wrestler, Design for a Madonna; Profile of a Young Man

    John Flaxman
    date not known
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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
    date not known
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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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