To earn money, Flaxman undertook to collect the local rates; and what with art and industry, the patient, hard-working, thrifty couple, after five years of careful saving, set out for Rome together.

There Flaxman studied and worked; there he improved his knowledge of art; and there he acquired the reputation of being the first of English sculptors.
The greater number of artists have sprung from humble life.

If they had been born rich, they would probably never have been artists.

They have had to work their way from one position to another; and to strengthen their nature by conquering difficulty.

Hogarth began his career by engraving shop-bills.