William Home Lizars
John Flaxman, 1755 - 1826. Sculptor and draughtsman
About this artwork
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artist:William Home Lizars (1788 - 1859) Scottish
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title:John Flaxman, 1755 - 1826. Sculptor and draughtsman
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date created:1815
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materials:Pencil on paper
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measurements:20.50 x 16.80 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Bequeathed by W.F. Watson 1886
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accession number:PG 144
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William Home Lizars
William Home Lizars
In 1802 Lizars was apprenticed to his father who ran an Edinburgh engraving business, before entering the Trustees’ Academy in 1804 as a student of John Graham. In 1808, as he graduated from the Trustees’ Academy, Lizars began exhibiting as a portraitist and genre painter with the Associated...