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John Flaxman 1755-1826, English sculptor and draftsman. At 20 he went to work for Josiah Wedgwood, designing the cameolike decorations for Wedgwood's pottery. Later, in Rome, he devoted himself to sculpture and produced outline figure drawings from Greek vases as illustrations for works of Homer, Dante, Aeschylus, and Hesiod. These were engraved by his friend William Blake. He is well known for his neoclassical memorial sculpture of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Admiral Earl Howe, and Lord Nelson (all: St. Paul's Cathedral).

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Flaxman, John (1755–1826), English neoclassical sculptor and draughtsman. He illustrated Pope's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey. His illustrations to Dante's Divina commedia were commissioned by T. Hope. He was a lifelong friend of Blake.

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