Flaxman, John
British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicism. Early in his career he worked as a modeller for Josiah Wedgwood's pottery. He spent several years in Rome, where he produced his first book illustrations. He was a prolific maker of funerary monuments.
He is well known for an illustrated book of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Dante's Divine Comedy