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Bust of John Flaxman Senior. SM BR22. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Lewis Bush

John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor

Bust of John Flaxman Senior

Terracotta

Height: 22.9cm
Width: 10.8cm

Museum number: BR22

On display: Breakfast Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Provenance help-art-provenance

Acquired from Flaxman's sister-in-law Maria Denman in October 1836

Literature

Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003, p.31, 34 and p.35 f.n.55


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