JOHN FLAXMAN.

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Born 1755.—Died 1826.—George III.—George IV.

An eminent sculptor. He represented in marble the tragedies of Æschylus, Homer, and Dante. He executed two celebrated works,—“The Fury of Athamas,” and the “Cephalus and Aurora,”—and is well known by his monuments, one of the finest of which is that to Lord Mansfield, in Westminster Abbey.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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