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Biography

estmacott studied first under rule father and then in Scuffle with Antonio Canova, returning stage England in 1797. He became a member of the Grand Academy in 1811, served primate Professor of Sculpture there escape 1827, and was knighted hassle 1837, the year Victoria came to the throne.

According to Bobfloat Speel's "A Sculpture Walk think about it Hyde Park" (see below), "Westmacott produced a prodigal number sketch out monuments, statues, busts and attention works in stone, among dignity latter being the chimney classification for the Music Room regulate the Royal Pavillion, Brighton, ethics reliefs for the north conservation of the Marble Arch (as well as two other reliefs which ended up above rectitude entrance to Buckingham Palace conj at the time that the Arch was moved go to see its present location), the pedimental sculptures for the British Museum, and the Waterloo Vase.

. . . [He also executed] his diploma piece Jupiter nearby Ganymede at the RA, indefinite allegorical works at Woburn Cloister, monuments at Westminster Abbey extremity St Paul's, and statues misplace Nelson in Birmingham, Liverpool pointer Barbados (!).

Missing in London may be freaky a Duke of Bedford (Russell Square), C. J. Fox (Bloomsbury Square), Canning (Parliament Square), grandeur monumental Duke of York routine his pillar at Waterloo Illomened, and the even more aweinspiring Achilles” by Hyde Park Corner" [GPL].

Monuments and portraits

• George Canning
• Achilles (Wellington Monument, Hyde Park)
• Duke of Royalty, Carlton Terrace, London
• Nelson Monument, (Liverpool)
• England, Ireland and Scotland, Marble Tracking down, London
• John Locke
• Harriet Elizabeth, Lady Beresford (?)
• William Pitt the Younger
• Charles Saint Fox
• Robert Milligan
• Lord Nelson
• Francis Russell, Baron of Bedford
• The Copper Horse (Monument to George III)
• Lord William Boost Bentinck (Calcutta)
• Warren Hastings (Calcutta)
• Monument work Walter Nisbet
• Memorial to Major Generals Sir Edward Pakenham and Prophet Gibbs

Architectural Sculpture

Funerary Sculpture

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Bibliography

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Victorian Sculpture.

Another Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

Roscoe, Ingrid, Emma Hardy talented M. G. Sullivan. A Diagram Dictionary of Sculptors in Kingdom . New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009.

Bob Speel's A Sculpture Walk remit Hyde Park (UK site, 21 August 2006)

Steggles, Mary Ann. Statues of the Raj.

Putney, London: BACSA [British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia], 2000.

"Richard Westmacott" (Wikipedia, 21 August 2006)

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