The Parthenon sculptures associated with the classical Greek sculptor Pheidias were increasingly influential and the influx of classical art into Britain through the mid nineteenth century, such as the sculptures from Nereid Monument in Lycia and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in Bodrum, only served to emphasise the importance attributed to Greek art (Challis, From the Harpy Tomb). The increased use of the Pheidian figural type in art works, classical history subjects and the depiction of everyday life in Greek and Roman antiquity was part of the classical revival of art that took place in Britain from the 1860s until.
