Person    | Male  Born 1667  Died 27/2/1731

Francis Bird

Categories: Sculpture

Francis Bird

Sculptor. Born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields. Much admired in his day, his work can be seen at St Paul's and at Westminster Abbey. In 1729, leaving a tavern at Christmas, he slipped and broke his leg. This was badly set and, after a long illness, he died. We understand that the Queen Anne statue in SW1 is a copy of that at St Pauls, and the one in Kingston, also by Bird, is a different statue.

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Henry VIII statue

This is apparently the only statue of King Henry the VIII on public display i...

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Queen Anne statue, St Paul's

The 4 female figures around the base represent: Britannia, France, America, I...

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Queen Anne Statue - SW1

Made for the portico of St Mary-le-Strand but it was never erected there. It ...

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Michael Black

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2 memorials
F. W. Pomeroy

F. W. Pomeroy

Born London. His London work includes the 1906 Lady Justice on the dome of the Old Bailey and from Speel we learn that Pomeroy also did four enormous figures on the upstream side of Vauxhall Bridge...

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4 memorials
Mortimer Brown

Mortimer Brown

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

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1 memorial
Henry Weekes

Henry Weekes

Sculptor.  Born Canterbury.

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5 memorials
Giambologna / Bologna

Giambologna / Bologna

Sculptor. Giambologna or Jean Boulogne. Born in Flanders but spent his working life in Italy.

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2 memorials