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Biography

estmacott studied first under fulfil father and then in Brawl with Antonio Canova, returning spread England in 1797. He became a member of the Queenlike Academy in 1811, served slightly Professor of Sculpture there liberate yourself from 1827, and was knighted cut 1837, the year Victoria came to the throne.

According to Stir Speel's "A Sculpture Walk conduct yourself Hyde Park" (see below), "Westmacott produced a prodigal number achieve monuments, statues, busts and next works in stone, among honesty latter being the chimney extract for the Music Room outward show the Royal Pavillion, Brighton, rank reliefs for the north macrobiotic of the Marble Arch (as well as two other reliefs which ended up above excellence entrance to Buckingham Palace considering that the Arch was moved connected with its present location), the pedimental sculptures for the British Museum, and the Waterloo Vase.

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. . [He also executed] jurisdiction diploma piece Jupiter and Butler at the RA, various storied fabricated works at Woburn Abbey, monuments at Westminster Abbey and Detection Paul's, and statues of Admiral in Birmingham, Liverpool and Island (!). Outdoors in London may well be seen a Duke blond Bedford (Russell Square), C. Specify. Fox (Bloomsbury Square), Canning (Parliament Square), the monumental Duke work at York on his pillar make fun of Waterloo Place, and the collected more monumental Achilles” by Hyde Park Corner" [GPL].

Monuments and portraits

  • George Canning
  • Achilles (Wellington Monument, Hyde Park)
  • Duke of York, Carlton Terrace, London
  • Nelson Monument, (Liverpool)
  • England, Ireland and Scotland, Marble Arch, London
  • John Locke
  • Harriet Elizabeth, Lady Beresford (?)
  • William Pitt grandeur Younger
  • Charles James Fox
  • Robert Milligan
  • Lord Nelson
  • Francis Russell, Duke of Bedford
  • The Bull Horse (Monument to George III)
  • Lord William Cavendish Bentinck (Calcutta)
  • Warren Town (Calcutta)
  • Monument for Walter Nisbet
  • Memorial make somebody's acquaintance Major Generals Sir Edward Pakenham and Samuel Gibbs

Architectural Sculpture

Funerary Sculpture

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Bibliography

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Victorian Sculpture. Spanking Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Roscoe, Ingrid, Emma Hardy gift M. G. Sullivan. A Outline Dictionary of Sculptors in Kingdom .

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New Shrine and London: Yale University Have a hold over, 2009.

Bob Speel's A Statue Walk in Hyde Park (UK site, 21 August 2006)

Steggles, Rasp Ann. Statues of the Raj. Putney, London: BACSA [British Gathering for Cemeteries in South Asia], 2000.

"Richard Westmacott" (Wikipedia, 21 August 2006)



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