Sculptor. Born Francis Leggatt Chantry at Jordanthorpe, near Norton, Derbyshire. Sculpted busts and statues of many famous people of the time. Left the Chantrey Bequest (or Chantrey Fund) for purchasing works of art for the nation.
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Duke of Wellington statue - EC2
Unveiled in Wellington's presence, this is one of only a handful of statues i...
Lord Nelson bust - Greenwich
{Plaque on plinth:} Admiral Lord Nelson, made by command of King William the ...
Thomas Coutts statue
The Story of Holly Lodge' by Margaret Downing, March 2009, says that this sta...
William Pitt statue
According to an information board in the square this bronze statue was erect...
Other Subjects
2 memorials
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William Charles Holland King
W. C. H. King was a sculptor. He was born in Cheltenham in 1884 and died in 1973. He was apprenticed to a firm of architectural sculptors at the age of 16 where he engaged in training for wood carv...
2 memorials
H. Tyson Smith
From Liverpool. Worked on a number of WW1 memorials. George Herbert Tyson Smith was born on 12 January 1883 in Liverpool, Lancashire, the eldest of four children of George H. Smith (b.1849) and Ma...
2 memorials
Grinling Gibbons
Born Rotterdam. Wood carver and sculptor. Other works in London: a marble font in St James's Piccadilly, carvings in Whitehall Palace. Lived and died in Bow Street. See Discovering London for some ...
11 memorials
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