Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . s. At twelve his medallionwon a -prize at the Society of Arts, and at fifteen he becamea student at the Ro3al Academy and carried off the silvermedal. At twenty he was engaged by Wedgwoods firm tomodel classical groups and portrait medallions for their this he showed more than ordinary aptitude. His skillin dealing with reliefs on a small scale is really phenomenal;but working under such restriction
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . s. At twelve his medallionwon a -prize at the Society of Arts, and at fifteen he becamea student at the Ro3al Academy and carried off the silvermedal. At twenty he was engaged by Wedgwoods firm tomodel classical groups and portrait medallions for their this he showed more than ordinary aptitude. His skillin dealing with reliefs on a small scale is really phenomenal;but working under such restrictions as to size undoubtedlyhad a cramping influence on his talent. Even after his sevenyears stay in Italy, which commenced when he was thirty-two,he never quite threw it off—never grew to be quite at home withlife-size representation. His most paying work in Italy was hisdesigns for Homer and Dante, which are not only ingenious, but Banks. Nollekens Flaxman. 788 ENGLAXDS STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE. [1802 full of a classical feeling that is almost Greek. He produced fewbusts and statues, and liis emblematic groups and public monu-ments do not exhibit his talent at its best. His numerous. THE ARCIIAXGEL HICHAEL CONTENDING AVITII SATAN, BYJOHN FLAXMAN. (University College, London.) memorial reliefs, of Avhich many cathedrals and churchescontain examples, better display his genuine, if limited, of them consist of symbolic groups embodying somesimple idea, as sorrow, resignation, comfort. In his handssuch themes, though treated in the classical spirit, are neither LITERATURE. 789 IS15 cold nor conventional, and lie manages to combine a certaintouch of real human pathos with the grace which neverdeserts him. Almost alone of English sculptors, he has thesecret of uniting the rhythmic flow of antique compositionwith the unaffected pose and gesture of actual life. Histalent can, however, be gauged best of all by the collectionsof his drawings, sketches, and studies in London and C
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