Born Chelsea. Died Lambeth.
Bolckow's Flickr page shows another McCarthy memorial, to Cardinal Herbert Alfred Vaughan, and asserts that McCarthy had worked for John Francis Bentley at Westminster Cathedral for many years.
Source: Mapping Sculpture, where it seems there is little known about him.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Henry William McCarthy
Carved into the panel behind the figure are images of the original Globe Thea...
The picture shows "Mel Morris Jones and Harry Brockway checking for level" but we don't know which is which, and we have to admit, it's not a good picture of either.
One of Britain's foremost figurative sculptors. Born New Cross. Interestingly, his stevedore father built his childhood home in West Malling, Kent. Appointed MBE in 2009. Our information comes fro...
Born in Wakefield as Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth. At art school met and became a friendly rival of Henry Moore, though it was she who first 'pierced' her sculptures. With her first husband had a son w...
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