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Born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, he worked as an architect's
clerk before becoming an apprentice carver in London with
Farmer & Brindley
, and studied at the RA
Schools, 1883, winning a
Gold Medal and a Travelling Scholarship.
After completing his studies in Paris with Jules Dalou
and Auguste Rodin
, 1883-85, he returned
to England to become an important figure in the New Sculpture Movement
.
As an architectural sculptor he worked on John Belcher
's
Institute of Chartered Accountants, London (1899).
His public commissions include the statue of Queen Victoria
in Dundee (1890)
and the Lord Roberts
Memorial, Calcutta (1894-8), which left him
almost destitute, and which was reproduced after his death by
Henry Poole
,
his former assistant, as Glasgow's memorial to Lord Roberts
(1916) and
at Horse Guards, London, although with a simpler pedestal (1924).
Elected ARA
, 1891, his work is represented in GMAG
by the Aeneid
triptych
(1886).
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