1985

Oscar Nemon

Born in what is now Croatia. Worked in Vienna and Brussels and settled in Britain in 1938. Specialised in Winston Churchill. Our picture shows Nemon with a self-portrait: now that sculpture we would like to see. There are plans for Pleasant Lands, his studios outside Oxford, to be opened to the public.

From Mapping Sculpture: "In the early 1950s, after creating a bust of Elizabeth II (now at Christchurch, Oxford) Nemon was given a studio at St James's Palace. There Nemon made numerous portraits and his sitters included (among many others): Lord Beaverbrook; General Lord Freyberg; President Eisenhower; the Queen Mother (Grocers' Hall, London); Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (Whitehall, London); Air Marshal Lord Portal (Victoria Embankment, London) as well as a series of monumental effigies of Sir Winston Churchill."

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Oscar Nemon

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Lord Portal

Unveiled by Harold Macmillan.

Montgomery statue

Unveiled by the Queen Mother (photo here).

Queen Mother - Grocers' Hall

Artnet shows that a copy of this bust, by Nemon, was for sale by auction at s...

Sigmund Freud statue

Nemon sculpted Freud for this statue in 1931 in Vienna and there it was inten...

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Oliver Wheatley

For some more of his work in London see the ever excellent Ornamental Passions.

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials

Jonathan Kenworthy

Sculptor. Born Westmorland. Other work in London: 'Lioness and Lesser Kudu' (1993) in Grosvenor Gardens.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial

Love

Created the tympanum at St Giles Church in 1800.

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial

Jean Robillard

Canadian sculptor.

Person, Sculpture, Canada

1 memorial

Mortimer Brown

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

Person, Sculpture

1 memorial

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Atique Sharifi

Although commemorated on plaques as Atiq Sharifi, he was born as Atique Sharifi on 1 January 1981 in Afghanistan and entered the UK as a refugee in 2002. Living in Hounslow, he was a student at Wes...

Person, Tragedy, Afghanistan

3 memorials

The Langham Hotel

W1, Portland Place, 1

The plaque was unveiled by the writer and former MP Gyles Brandreth.

5 subjects commemorated, 4 creators

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Fawcett frieze - 03, Pochin

SW1, Parliament Square

Most statues have plinths, which often carry the identity of the statue but little more. The plinth for this Millicent Fawcett statue is ...

1 subject commemorated

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Sir Aston Webb

Also designed the eastern façade of Buckingham Palace (Londonist has a good post about this), the entrance façade to the V&A Museum, Admiralty Arch and the French Huguenot Church in Soho Square.

Person, Architecture

6 memorials

Harmsworth - IWM

SE1, Lambeth Road, Imperial War Museum

The Harmsworth plaque is inside the entrance lobby to the Museum, just to the right of our photo.

War dead | WW1
7 subjects commemorated

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