Flaxman, John

has biography | a une biographie: British sculptor in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Flaxman produced several colonial statues in his lifetime, including a statue of Lt. Gen. Sir John Moore in Glasgow and two statues of Warren Hastings for Whitehall and India. Some of his most notable works, however, were funerary monuments, many of which were produced for individuals involved in transatlantic slavery and colonialism. Examples include the monument to Sir Simon Clarke in Hanover Parish Church, Jamaica, the monument to William Miles in Ledbury Church, Herefordshire, and two monuments to John Brathwaite in St Martin's Church, Epsom and St Michael’s Parish Church, Barbados.
was born | est né: 6 July 1755
died in | est mort par: 7 December 1826
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: artist

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; The Victorian Web; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; Legacies of British Slavery - John Brathwaite; Legacies of British Slavery - Sir Simon Clarke 7th Bart.; Legacies of British Slavery - William Miles; Alfie Banks, ‘The Imperial Afterlife of Warren Hastings, 1818–1947’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 50, 3 (2022) 498-531; C. Lewis Broad, 'John Flaxman: First Sculptor of Empire', Fortnightly Review, 121, 722 (1927) 202-209; Joan Coutu, 'Appendix Four: Eighteenth-and Early-Nineteenth-Century Monuments in North America and the British West Indies', in Jean Coutu, Persuasion and Propaganda: Monuments and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006), pp. 344-364.; Edward Croft-Murray, ‘An Account Book of John Flaxman R.A. (British Museum Add. MSS. 39,784 B.B.)’, The Volume of the Walpole Society, 28 (1939-1940) 51-94; Jason Edwards, ‘Introduction: From the East India Company to the West Indies and Beyond: The World of British Sculpture, c. 1757–1947’, Journal of Visual Culture, 11, 2 (2010) 147-172; Cora Gilroy-Ware, The Classical Body in Romantic Britain (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2020); Sarah Monks, ‘A Visnhu-Come-Lately: John Bacon’s Monument to William Jones (1799)’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 20, 20 (2022) 1-12

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Statue of Lt. Gen. Sir John Moore, Glasgow