Person    | Male  Born 25/12/1867  Died 13/11/1921

William Robert Colton

Categories: Sculpture

Countries: France

Sculptor. Born Paris but came to England early and made his home in London.

The only other public work in London that we know of is the 1897 Mermaid Fountain or Little Nell, in Hyde Park, just north of the Cavalry memorial. We've seen this called a Memorial Fountain but we think that is a careless misreading of "Mermaid" since nowhere can we discover what is supposedly being commemorated. It was replaced with a concrete reproduction in 1975.

Speel, our Picture source is very informative.

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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
William Robert Colton

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Royal Artillery Boer War memorial

Bronze statue depicts War being controlled by Peace. Unveiled by the Duke of ...

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Jak Beula Dodd

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Henry Bursill

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.

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J. R. Clayton

J. R. Clayton

Born John Richard Clayton. In partnership with Alfred Bell (1832–95) ran a commercially successful stained glass workshop.

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1 memorial
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Poet, writer, artist and gardener. Born in the Bahamas to Scottish parents and brought up in Scotland. Studied at Glasgow School of Art. Combined his interests by installing concrete poetry in his ...

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1 memorial