Born Italy. Based in London and naturalized British by 1871.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Giovanni Fontana
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Albert Grant & Shakespeare
"There is no darkness but ignorance" is a quote from "Twelfth Night". The scu...
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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...
Thomas Woolner
Sculptor and poet. Born Hadleigh Suffolk. Early member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Emigrated to Australia 1852-3 for economic reasons. Buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Hendon.
Henry Bursill
Bursill also sculpted the allegorical statues on Holborn bridge and seems to be the same man who produced a book on hand shadows in 1851. See Speel for some more info on Bursill.
Veronica Maudlyn Ryan, OBE.
Veronica Maudlyn Ryan was born on 22 August 1956 in Plymouth, Montserrat, according to the Prabook website. She moved to London with her parents Cyril & Eleanor Ryan when she was an infant and ...
Samuel Joseph
It seems he was a member of the Phrenological Society which makes some sense for a portrait sculptor.
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