William Blake and John Flaxman were lifelong friends who met in the early 1770's while Flaxman was studying sculpture and drawing at the Royal Academy. Blake even wrote a poem about him!  They collaborated on a number of works, including the Iliad of Homer, which we own. Flaxman eventually became a member of the Royal Academy in 1800 and its first professor of sculpture in 1810. They were also friends with Henry Fuseli, a Swiss-British artist who arranged for William Blake to engrave a few plates for the Hunter edition of Johann Caspar Lavater' s Essays on Physiognomy, which we own.