John Flaxman — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works5

Museum Acquisitions

Art Institute of Chicago

Hannah Presenting Samuel to Eli, 1783

Acquired 2024

Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash, with touches of pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Oceanus and Prometheus Bound, 1795

Acquired 2017

Graphite and ink on wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Figures, 1817

Acquired 2013

Lithograph on ivory wove paper

LACMA

Head of a Man

Acquired 1981

Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite

Previous Sales

Sotheby's

Portrait of Henry William Mathew

Sold

Jul 2023

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Other Museum Acquisitions12

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Hannah Presenting Samuel to Eli

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2024 · Accession 2023.3177 · Pen and black ink and brush and black ink wash, with touches of pen and brown ink, on ivory laid paper

Regenstein Endowment Fund

Oceanus and Prometheus Bound

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston · Houston, United States · Acquired 2017 · Accession 2017.220 · Graphite and ink on wove paper

Gift of Cecily E. Horton

Figures

Art Institute of Chicago · Chicago, United States · Acquired 2013 · Accession 2013.721 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

St. John the Evangelist

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2013 · Accession 2013.614 · Brush and brown wash over graphite

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2013

Paris and Oenone

Cleveland Museum of Art · Cleveland, United States · Acquired 2008 · Accession 2008.35 · brush and gray wash with pen and pale gray-black ink with graphite and brown ink

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Study of Two Women Grieving

Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, United States · Acquired 2007 · Accession 2007.275 · Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

Purchase, Catherine G. Curran, Jeffrey L. Berenson, PECO Foundation, and Susan H. Seidel Gifts, 2007

An Angel Appearing to a Crouching Figure (recto); Studies for the Massacre of the Innocents (verso)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art · Los Angeles, United States · Acquired 2005 · Accession M.2005.177a-b · Pen and gray and black ink and black chalk

Gift of Bruce Robertson in honor of the museum's 40th anniversary

[title not known]

Tate · United Kingdom · Acquired 1997 · Accession T11733 · Graphite on paper