Anthony Stephen Mathew

Portrait of Mathew by John Flaxman

Anthony Stephen Mathew (1734–1824[1]) was a cleric the Church of England. He and his wife Harriet Mathew are most notable for their friendship and support of John Flaxman and William Blake and their gathering of intellectuals and artists salon in their house at Rathbone Place.

Importantly, he was one of the original supporters of Blake's first collection of work Poetical Sketches (1783).[2] Blake later satirised the Mathews, and the Johnson Circle, in the collection An Island in the Moon.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference LondonSurvey was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Damon, S. Foster (1988). "Poetical Sketches". In Morris Eaves (ed.). A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake. University Press of New England. pp. 330–331. ISBN 9780874514360.
  3. ^ Bloom, Harold (2003). William Blake. Bloom's Major Poets. Chelsea House Publications. p. 13. ISBN 0-7910-6812-9. Retrieved 16 November 2010.