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

William Behnes

William Behnes

Born London but brought up in Dublin. Very successful and prolific sculptor but he was a difficult man with "evil habits" (which seem to have been mainly liquid) and never achieved membership of t...

Person, Sculpture, Ireland

3 memorials
Samuel Joseph

Samuel Joseph

It seems he was a member of the Phrenological Society which makes some sense for a portrait sculptor.

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials
Keith McCarter

Keith McCarter

Sculptor.  Born Scotland. More of his work can be seen at the picture source website.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial
John Angel

John Angel

Architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor, medallist and lecturer. He emigrated to the United States where he created architectural sculpture. Born Devon. Studied at the Lambeth School of Art. Mar...

Person, Sculpture, USA

1 memorial
Farmer & Brindley

Farmer & Brindley

Firm of sculptors. Founded by William Farmer (1825-1879) and William Brindley. Worked on many buildings including the Natural History Museum, the Albert Memorial and Holborn Viaduct. In 1929 the fi...

Group, Sculpture

4 memorials