The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey (1911)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 305
theory. He had mixedwith artists and patrons, with men of genius and menof fashion; he had studied with reverent care thewonders with which Rome and its surroundings abound ;he had, too, been elected a member of the Academiesof Florence and Carrara ; and he was now ready toreturn to England. The… … I—(CO < OO FLAXMAN 24s seems to have been chosen for other reasons than the factthat he had noW done and seen all he wanted to see anddo : the country was becoming unsettled ; NapoleonBonapartes personality had already passed the Alps,and events were moving too quickly to allow of a peacefulstay…
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