I te mutunga o te tau 1811, ka uru ia ki te Royal Academy. I te Academy, i nekehia ia e te toi o te Renaissance, ka aro nui ki nga mahi a Michelangelo me Raphael. I muri i te tirotiro me te mahi toi ora me te ngongo i ona whakaritenga anatomical, i hangaia e te kaitoi taiohi tana mahi rangatira, te Dying Hercules. (I hanga e ia he whakairo hei ako mo te peita.) Pātai: He aha te ingoa o te mahi rangatira a te kaitoi taiohi?
te Hercules e mate ana