Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 242
ame time tocultivate his love ofthe beautiful, to diffusea taste for art among the people, and to replenish hisown purse, while he promoted the prosperity of hisfriend and benefactor. Engaged in such labors as these, for several yearsFlaxman executed but few works of art, and then atrare intervals.… … From Portrait of Flaxman byHimself. 212 Men Who Have Risen marble was too dear a material for him. He hadhitherto executed only one statue in the latter material,and that was a commission. At length, in the year 1782, when twenty-seven yearsof age, he quitted his fathers roof and rented a…
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