Studies of a Sickbed and Decorations for the Façade of Buckingham Palace [recto and verso]
John Flaxman
1820/1826
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Medium
graphite//compositionally unrelated ink and wash verso
Dimensions
overall: 16.3 x 10.3 cm (6 7/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1630
About the Artist
John Flaxman · 1755–1826
John Flaxman (1755–1826) was born in York, England, the son of John Flaxman Sr., a moulder and seller of plaster casts who ran a studio in London's Covent Garden. Largely self-taught amid his father's stock of classical casts, with minimal formal schooling due to childhood illness, Flaxman displayed prodigious talent early on. At age 12, he won a Society of Arts prize for a medallion; by 15, anoth...