Maria Denman

(1776-1861)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Denman, Maria, 1776-1861 LBT ID: MaDenma1860 VIAF ID: 103565334 LOC ID: no2009198587	B/BAP: 1776 DIED: 1861
SOURCES: Ellen Creathorne Clayton, English Female Artists (1876) 1:375-77 ; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The adopted daughter of John Flaxman (married to her elder sister Ann), afterwards his heir and executor. She was an amateur artist who had known and admired William Blake in her youth.
REFERENCES TO Maria Denman: Thomas Moore to Samuel Rogers, 25 October 1847 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Henry Crabb Robinson to Samuel Rogers, [November 1848] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1847-50. Found 1: ¶ 6