Person    | Male  Born 29/8/1903  Died 18/10/1973

Edward Bainbridge Copnall

Categories: Sculpture

Sculptor and painter. Best known for his architectural and decorative sculptures featuring allegorical and religious subjects. President of the Royal Society of Sculptors 1961-66.

Other work in London includes the Light and Sound reliefs on the Vue cinema in Cranbourn Street; The Swan Upper on Putney's Riverbank House; the wonderful 1958 Black Friar on Friars House 157- 168 Blackfriars Road; the Street Preacher on the Lambeth Mission; 'Dawn' on The Adelphi; the Water Baby fountain in Golders Hill Park, the figure on Lambeth Chapel; the 1958 mural on the the Pearl Assurance New Building, High Holborn (described in Apollo, August 1962, 76/6, 455-63, see A London Inheritance).

Source: Wikipedia.

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Edward Bainbridge Copnall

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Boy David

Commissioned to create a WW1 memorial to the Machine Gun Corps Derwent Wood p...

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RIBA - Sir Christopher Wren

On the Weymouth Street facade there are 5 figures carved in relief by Copnall...

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St James's Theatre - 3 reliefs

The four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depict the heads of G...

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St James's Theatre - Olivier relief

We choose this as our featured memorial in March 2007 since this year sees th...

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Thomas Becket statue

Not bronze but a resin which Copnall coloured to simulate bronze. More photo...

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Other Subjects

Frank Lynn Jenkins

Frank Lynn Jenkins

Born Torquay, Devon. Other work in London: 'Abundance' on Thames House, Queen Street Place and the monument for Thomas Joseph Tate in the St. Marylebone Cemetery, East End Road, N3. Moved to Americ...

Person, Sculpture, USA

3 memorials
Frank Mowbray Taubman

Frank Mowbray Taubman

Frank Mowbray Taubman was born on 13 June 1868 in Holloway, Middlesex (now Greater London), the second of the four children of Robert Taubman (1840-1905) and Fanny Taubman née Mountain (1845-1932)....

Person, Art, Poetry, Sculpture

1 memorial
E. Onslow Ford

E. Onslow Ford

Born Islington as Edward Onslow Ford, but he dropped the Edward. Studied Antwerp and Munich.  A successful and well-liked sculptor.  Died at home, 62 Acacia Road.  The picture here is a portrait by...

Person, Sculpture

12 memorials
Tom Painter

Tom Painter

Active 1951-60, at least. Source: Mapping Sculpture.

Person, Sculpture, Scotland

1 memorial
William Mitchell

William Mitchell

Sculptor. He has worked in a vast variety of techniques and media, producing some grand-scale works. Among his London projects are the interior of the Curzon Cinema, Mayfair, the concrete frieze in...

Person, Sculpture

4 memorials