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. Married an American he had met in Greece. He and his family went to live in the United States in 1925.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Angel
An unusual memorial featuring Christ embracing a wounded soldier. Restored in...
From Birkbeck : "Sculptor, Ralph Beyer, who died in 2008 aged 86, fled from Nazi Germany arriving in England with his family in 1937 when he was 16 years old. His mother later returned to Germany ...
Sculptor. Born in Shrewsbury. On graduating from the Wolverhampton College of Art, he won a Rome scholarship for sculpture and lived and worked at the British School in Rome for a number of years. ...
Awarded the first gold medal for sculpture by the Royal Academy in 1769. Other works: Samuel Johnson (1796) in St Paul's Cathedral. Ornamental Passions writes : "John Bacon was the son of a clothwo...
Born Mechelen, now in Belgium. Moved to England in late 17th century. His nephew, John Nost the Younger, carried on the business, and indeed we are not certain which one created the Geffrye statue....
Sculptor active in 1938 - 50. In 1938 he was living in Belfast. With no image of Brown available on-line we are pleased to use the photo of his 1950 lost mermaid.
This Alan Eisen flickr page will take you on a walk of the Wall, showing many of the blue-bordered plaques. The Museum of London created a 2 mile long London Wall Walk in 1983, marked with 23 love...
Formed initially as the 'Experimental Corps of Riflemen' it became the 'Rifle Corps' and then the '95th Regiment of Foot (Rifles)'. In 1816 it became the Rifle Brigade. Unusually the soldiers wor...
A former further education college, with sites in Waterloo, Bermondsey and Camberwell. It merged with Lewisham College.
Clock-maker. We had 1989 as his date of death but in July 2024 we received this contact from Chris: "Dan’s distant nephew (grandson of his sister Elizabeth) here. Just to correct that 1989 is when...
Born at Folkestone, Kent. Discovered and proved the circulation of the blood.
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