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

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Ralph Perrott

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1 memorial
Albert Arthur Toft

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Harry Bates

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Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
William Rodney Graham

William Rodney Graham

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1 memorial

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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A. W. Watson

Killed in WW1.

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Luke Smith

Luke Smith

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
John R. W. Luck

John R. W. Luck

Churchwarden of St John the Baptist upon Walbrook in 1884. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: John Richard Whitmore Luck was born on 21 December 1842 in Camberwell, the eldest of the ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial