John Flaxman

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The drawing is accompanied in the album by a letter from Flaxman to Brockedon 14 December 1824 thanking him for a copy of a French newspaper in which an article praises a lithographic edition of Flaxman's Dante drawings; the praise he concludes wryly 'will not be sufficient to produce giddiness even in a very weak head'. The drawing was probably done posthumously in the early 1830s using Charles Turner's mezzotint of the portrait by Jackson then belonging to Lord Dover.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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