Born Latvia. First visited London in 1926. The Picture Source website provides a biography. Married Richard Hare and built, with him, Dorich House which is where she died and is now a museum.
For more information on this sculptor we suggest the book ‘Working Against the Grain: Women Sculptors in Britain c.1885-1950’ by Pauline Rose.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Dora Gordine
Sun Yat-Sen, 1866 - 1925, father of the Chinese Republic, lived in a house on...
Sculptor. Another public statue by Gibbs, Nancy Astor, was unveiled on Plymouth Hoe 28 November 2019.
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.
John Edward Taylerson was born in Durham and christened on 13 January 1855. Before 1881 he and his widowed mother moved to London where he studied. He established a business in Wandsworth. His Lond...
Sculptor. Born Lyon. Made his reputation in 1749 with the tomb of the Duke of Argyll in Westminster Abbey. Died penniless.
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