Person    | Female  Born 24/3/1949 

Philomena Davidson Davis

Categories: Sculpture

Born London, she became the first female president of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1990, a post she held for six years (giving her the post-nominal letters PPRSS). Co-opted member of the Windrush Commemoration Committee.

The picture source has a career biography. Her name is often given without the 'Davis'.

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Philomena Davidson Davis

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Lady Somerset and temperance

The original bronze statue by Wade in 1897 was stolen in 1971 when it was saw...

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National Windrush monument

Unveiled on Windrush day in 2022. The full poem is available at Laura Serrant.

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Other Subjects

Carl Payne
1 memorial
Thomas Thornycroft

Thomas Thornycroft

Sculptor. born Cheshire. Came to London in 1835 where he was apprenticed to John Francis and worked alongside another of Francis's apprentices, his daughter Mary, whom he married on 29 February 184...

Person, Sculpture

3 memorials
Frank Meisler

Frank Meisler

Architect and sculptor. Born Danzig. Arrived in England via the Kindertransport. Active in 2006. Art Forum obit. Born in what was then Danzig and is now Gdansk, Poland. Meisler was himself one of t...

Person, Architecture, Sculpture, Germany, Israel/Palestine, Poland

1 memorial
Arthur Fleischmann

Arthur Fleischmann

Sculptor.  Born Bratislava which was in Hungary at the time.  Studied medicine and started work in Vienna as a dermatologist but he had also been studying sculpture and in 1924 he gave up the 'day ...

Person, Sculpture, Austria, Hungary, Indonesia

2 memorials
Jaspar Latham

Jaspar Latham

Master mason who worked with Christopher Wren in the City of London after the Great Fire. His masterpiece is considered the funeral monument to Archbishop Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677) in St John the...

Person, Sculpture

2 memorials