Sculptor. Born USA, not to be confused with his father also a sculptor with the same name, of Irish descent. In London c.1894-8, met and worked with John Singer Sargent. Also worked in Paris c.1903-14. Back in America commissioned for the 1918 Lincoln statue at Springfield, Illinois. The Royal Exchange bust is surely a version of this.
Spent his last years in Europe: first Paris, then from c.1932 Ireland and London. Died Dublin.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Andrew O'Connor
{Inscribed on the red granite plinth:} Lincoln by Andrew O'Connor Presented t...
Sculptor. A founding member of the Bermondsey Artists' Group created in 1983.
Other work in London includes "Seated Girl", 1990 in Golders Hill Park.
City mason active post Great Fire of 1666. His work was continued by his son, Thomas Cartwright the Younger (1655 - 1711).
Sculptor and printmaker. Born in Edinburgh of Italian parents. His father (and we think his maternal grandfather) died on the Arandora Star. A major figure in the development of the pop-art style. ...
Sculptor. Served his apprenticeship at Woburn Abbey. Studied stone carving and sculpture at the City and Guilds of London School of Art, where he obtained a first.
We could not get close enough to take easily legible photographs and initially read the dates as '1957' but given that Normansfield close...
Londonist report that when this church was converted for office use Grimaldi's grave (the above ground part at least) was moved to this l...
The text on the memorial says that the original tree was burnt by the people at the Reform League meeting at the tree on that day in 1866 but we can find no confirmation of that. Wikipedia has qui...
London County Council Austin Dobson, 1840-1921, poet and essayist, lived here.
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