The Flaxmans set up house in Wardour Street, and usually spent their summer holidays as guests of the poet William Hayley, at Eartham in Sussex. Flaxman took a shine to the Denman family, particularly Nancy's younger sister Maria, whom he trained as a sculptor, and to whom he left a great deal in his will. He also employed Nancy's brother Thomas Denman in his studio and it was Denman who completed the various unfinished sculptures in Flaxman's studio after his death.
The Flaxmans set up house in Wardour Street, and usually spent their summer holidays as guests of the poet William Hayley, at Eartham in Sussex. Flaxman took a shine to the Denman family, particularly Nancy's younger sister Maria, whom he trained as a sculptor, and to whom he left a great deal in his will. He also employed Nancy's brother Thomas Denman in his studio and it was Denman who completed the various unfinished sculptures in Flaxman's studio after his death.
Inscription
Here rest the mortal remains of
Ann Flaxman,
The virtuous and beloved wife of
John Flaxman, R.A.P.S.,
Whose soul returned to the
Almighty Creator and Blessed Redeemer
On the 7th of February,
In the year of Our Lord, 1820,
And the 60th year of her age.
Under the same stone Is interred her husband,
John Flaxman, R.A.P.S.,
Whose mortal life
Was a constant preparation
For a blessed immortality.
His angelic spirit returned to the Divine Giver
On the 7th of December, 1826,
In the 72nd year of his age.
Also in the same vault
Are deposited the mortal remains of
Mary Ann Flaxman,
Sister of the above John Flaxman,
Whose gentle spirit returned to the Divine Giver
On the 17th of April, 1833, in the 65th year of her age.
Gravesite Details
The Monumental Inscriptions of Middlesex Vol II - Cansick 1872.
Inscription from St. Giles' Cemetery, King's Road. Now part of St Pancras Gardens.
Family Members
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