page_title: John Flaxman
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: John Flaxman / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: Anne Flaxman (née Denman). In 1782, aged 27, John Flaxman married Anne Denman, who assisted him throughout his career. She was well-educated, and the devoted companion of her husband's fortunes and of his travels.
context_page_description: John Flaxman RA was a 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.
context_section_description: In 1782, aged 27, Flaxman married Anne Denman, who was to assist him throughout his career. She was well-educated, and a devoted companion. They set up house in Wardour Street, and usually spent their summer holidays as guests of the poet William Hayley, at Eartham in Sussex.
caption: Anne, Flaxman's wife, by Henry Howard, c. 1797
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