Person    | Male  Born 8/3/1762  Died 21/2/1839

Charles Rossi

Categories: Sculpture

Countries: Italy

Sculptor. Born Nottingham, son of an Italian immigrant. Apprenticed to Locatelli, they arrived in London in 1775 and carved the medallions at the Middlesex Sessions House. Achieved a good reputation for his portrait busts. Died at home, Cochran's Terrace (now Cochrane Street), St John's Wood. The picture is a self-portrait. London work includes: the caryatides at St Pancras church on Euston Road, two figures on the front of the Royal Opera House.

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Charles Rossi

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Haydon & Rossi

London County Council Benjamin Haydon, 1786 - 1846, painter and Charles Rossi...

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Charles Rossi

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Old Middlesex Sessions House

Above the central window, this cameo-type profile bust of the King is draped ...

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Other Subjects

Joseph Whitehead & Sons Ltd

Joseph Whitehead & Sons Ltd

Contractor in marble work, responsible for the design and execution of works such as the drinking fountains for the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association. Based at Imperial W...

Group, Architecture, Commerce, Property, Sculpture

4 memorials
Judy Wiseman

Judy Wiseman

Sculptor, of Nether Street, Finchley.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Mortimer Brown

Mortimer Brown

Sculptor. Born Staffordshire. Died Budleigh Salterton, Devon where he had lived since 1925.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
L. S. Merrifield

L. S. Merrifield

Sculptor. Leonard Stanford Merrifield was born in Gloucestershire. After training he lived in London (and was based in Chelsea for at least some of the time). Speel reviews his work. His statue of ...

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
Edward Strong

Edward Strong

Master mason for St George's Bloomsbury.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial