. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. sat to Sir Joshua Reynolds, both in 1762 and in 1773 ;Angelica Kauffmann painted her portrait, seated, inthree-quarter length, an engraving of the bust portionbeing published by R. Cooper in 1810 ; Richard Coswayexecuted a well-known miniature of her, in 1794, as wellas a full-length, leaning against a pedestal, on whichstands a bust. There is also a terrible picture of thesculptress, engraved by Walker, in which she is shown hold-ing a flower in one hand and standing by t
. The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey. sat to Sir Joshua Reynolds, both in 1762 and in 1773 ;Angelica Kauffmann painted her portrait, seated, inthree-quarter length, an engraving of the bust portionbeing published by R. Cooper in 1810 ; Richard Coswayexecuted a well-known miniature of her, in 1794, as wellas a full-length, leaning against a pedestal, on whichstands a bust. There is also a terrible picture of thesculptress, engraved by Walker, in which she is shown hold-ing a flower in one hand and standing by the bust of achild. But perhaps the best likeness of her is that byan unknown painter, representing her in advanced ageengaged on a bust which stands on a modelling stool. 230 LIVES OF THE BRITISH SCULPTORS This portrait is in the possession of Mrs. F. ErskineJohnston, and has far more character than have theother representations of Mrs. Damer. Besides these,there is the bust of herself which she presented tothe city of Florence, and the excellent full-lengthstatue executed by Ceracchi, to which I have JOHN FLAXMAN CHAPTER XIFLAXMAN When the German painter, Gotzenberger, was on a visitto this country, he once remarked that he had seen heremany men of talent, but only three men of genius; ofthese Coleridge was one, Blake another, and the third wasJohn Flaxman ; while it is known that Blake himselfcalled Flaxman the Sculptor of Eternity. Whetheror not Flaxman actually came within the narrow rangeconnoted by the much-discussed and very illusive term,genius, certain it is that he was not only one of thegreatest of British sculptors, but also one of the mostinventive, and purest in style, as well as one of the mostclassic, in the true acceptation of the word, of any in thewhole range of modern sculpture. John Flaxman was born on July 6, 1755, at York, andwas the second son of another John Flaxman, by his firstwife, whose maiden name was Lee. The Flaxman familytraditi
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