measuring about two feet in height; one represents Michel Angelo, the other Raffaelle. These stand in his front-parlour, unconscious of the inestimable treasures the cabinets of that room contain from their immortal hands.
For some weeks previous to his decease, though he was met in the street by several friends only three days before his death, he certainly was on the decline; and yet his dissolution was unexpected. He departed in his house in Buckingham-street, and was buried in the church-yard of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, next to that of St. Pancras Old Church.
The following inscription is cut upon an altar-tomb erected to the memory of his wife in the middle of the burial-ground:—
"John Flaxman, R.A.P.S.[1]
Whose mortal life
Was a constant preparation
For a blessed immortality:
Hit angelic spirit returned to the Divine Giver
On the 7th of December, 1826,
In the 72d year of his age."
- ↑ He was the first Professor of Sculpture in the Royal Academy.
