The design of the Three Graces owes much to the neoclassical style that dominated the decorative and visual arts of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries. Works associated with this movement are identified by a deceptively simplistic, clean-lined style and a reverence of the art of ancient world. The Three Graces shows the influence of neoclassicism in the classical dress worn by the three figures and the allusion to the three charities of Greek mythology. William Wyon, the engraver, was influenced by his mentor, John Flaxman, a leading proponent of neoclassicism.