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John Flaxman
Born(1755-07-06)6 July 1755
York, England
Died7 December 1826(1826-12-07) (aged 71)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Known forSculpture and engraving
MovementNeoclassicism
Spouse
Anne ("Nancy") Denman
(m. 1782; died 1820)
John Flaxman by Musgrave Watson, University College London, 1847

John Flaxman RA (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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machine. These are still described as plaster casts. Examples of these by John Flaxman may be found in the central rotunda of the library at University College...

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making the moulds for the designs of others, and sculpting his own. John Flaxman (Junior), then 19 years old but already a trained sculptor exhibiting...

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Kretschmer, Glotta XXIV, p. 250. Martin Nilsson (1967), Vol I, p. 559 Angel, John L.; Mellink, Machteld Johanna (1986). Troy and the Trojan War: A Symposium...

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no way of knowing if they are wrong". Classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath argue that modern authors who identify the pair as homosexual ingeniously...

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Ajax the Great

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BC. Currently in British Museum. Ajax battling Hector, engraving by John Flaxman, 1795 Achilles and Ajax play a game of dice on this early 5th-century...

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Laestrygonians

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as well as the Cyclopes, had once inhabited Sicily. Illustration by John Flaxman for the Odyssey (1810) Odysseus at the Laestrygonians. Source J. C. Andrä:...

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Victoria and Albert Museum

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Eos

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Epsom

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bonesetter John Parkhurst (1728–1797) academic, clergyman and lexicographer – lived in Epsom and is commemorated in a memorial by John Flaxman in St Martin's...

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Hecatoncheires

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Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol...

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University College London

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1890s. A series of plaster casts of full-size details of sculptures by John Flaxman is located inside the library under the dome of the UCL Main Building...

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John Soane

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UCL Main Building

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lazuli. The empress' bedroom used Wedgwood jasper bas-reliefs designed by John Flaxman and George Stubbs. The Blue Room, or "Snuff-box", incorporated white...

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Isle of Man TT

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was organised by the Auto-Cycle Club over 10 laps of the Isle of Man St John's Short Course of 15 miles 1,470 yards for road-legal 'touring' motorcycles...

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St Pancras Old Church

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National Gallery

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Following the Walpole sale many artists, including James Barry and John Flaxman, had made renewed calls for the establishment of a National Gallery,...

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