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).
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Edward Bainbridge Copnall
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RIBA - Sir Christopher Wren
On the Weymouth Street facade there are 5 figures carved in relief by Copnall...
St James's Theatre - 3 reliefs
The four bas-relief panels by Edward Bainbridge Copnall depict the heads of G...
St James's Theatre - Olivier relief
We choose this as our featured memorial in March 2007 since this year sees th...
Thomas Becket statue
Not bronze but a resin which Copnall coloured to simulate bronze. More photo...
Other Subjects
Paul Dibble
New Zealand sculptor. An obituary cites the London New Zealand War Memorial as one of his major achievements.
George Edward Wade
Born London, baptized at the church where his father was rector, St Anne's Soho. Died at home, 30 Hyde Park Street. In the picture Wade is front left.
Lady Kathleen Scott
Sculptor. Born as (Edith Agnes) Kathleen Bruce, in Nottinghamshire. Married Captain Scott (of the Antarctic) in 1908 and was given the title Lady which she would have received, had he returned ali...
John Adams-Acton
Sculptor. Born John Adams in Acton and later added the (now) suburb's name to his, not because of pride in his place of birth but to differentiate himself from other artists of the same name. Did...
Emilio Greco
Italian Sculptor. Born Catania, Sicily. Professor of Sculpture in Naples. Died Rome.
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