John Flaxman

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed at top in ink: Flaxman and on verso: Mrs Roger Winter/Calcutta/JA.

This portraitback to top

The drawing was offered to the Trustees by Canon Atkinson among a number of others and described as 'a sketch of Flaxman by my father which I should like you to see as Flaxman was well known to him and I have no doubt the sketch is taken from life'. Atkinson, at that time editor of the Government Gazette in Calcutta, visited England in 1826-7 and was able to make the drawing shortly before Flaxman's death on 7 December 1826.

Physical descriptionback to top

Whole-length seated dejectedly in drab coat and breeches, legs crossed.

Provenanceback to top

The artist and given by his son Canon J. A. Atkinson in 1890.


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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