"of bread. The woman is looking down at the sparrow. On the wall behind the figure is an inscribed plaque which originally read <poem> but this has since been replaced. Notes Citations Eleanor Rigby (statue) Eleanor Rigby is a statue in Stanley Street, Liverpool, England, designed and made by the entertainer Tommy Steele. It is based on the subject of The Beatles' song ""Eleanor Rigby"", which is credited to the Lennon–McCartney partnership. When Tommy Steele was performing in a show in Liverpool in 1981, he made an offer to Liverpool City Council to create a sculpture as a tribute to"
"of his major works have been on public display: ""Bermondsey Boy"" at the Rotherhithe Town Hall in London (stolen in 1998, current whereabouts unknown), and ""Eleanor Rigby"" which he sculpted and donated to the City of Liverpool as a tribute to the Beatles. The statue stands in Stanley Street, Liverpool, not far from the Cavern Club. Steele has another sculpture featuring two rugby players on display at Twickenham Stadium. He is also an artist of some note and has exhibited at the Royal Academy. When he lived in Montrose House, Petersham, Surrey, outside his front door stood a life-style sculpture"
"unveiled at the Albert Embankment of the River Thames, in front of Lambeth Palace. Karen Newman (artist) Karen Newman MRBS (born 20 January 1951) is a British-born sculptor, best known for her bronze bust of Violette Szabo on the Albert Embankment of the River Thames, outside Lambeth Palace in London. Newman was trained at the Chelsea School of Art for a Pre-Diploma 1969–1970, then on to the City and Guilds Art School in Kennington, London 1970–1972. From 1980 to 2001 Newman worked at Madame Tussauds in London. Among her subjects were: Newman's life-size waxwork of Charlie Chaplin was exhibited at"
"at a total cost of £35,000. The sculpture was at first considered controversial and there was scepticism regarding its purpose and value. However it soon became a popular symbol in the city and a valued piece of public art. At the end of the ArtTransPennine Exhibition, responsibility for the sculpture was handed to the Liverpool Architecture & Design Trust. Since the sculpture's conception it was intended to move around the city and not remain in one location. It was originally located on the Strand near Liverpool's famous Liver Building and has since been located in several places including Williamson Square,"
"Vinnie Ream Lavinia Ellen ""Vinnie"" Ream Hoxie (September 25, 1847 – November 20, 1914) was an American sculptor. Her most famous work is the statue of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. Ream was born September 25, 1847, in a log cabin in Madison, Wisconsin, as Lavinia Ellen Ream. She was the youngest daughter of Robert Ream and Lavinia McDonald Ream. Robert was a surveyor for the Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory and a Wisconsin Territory civil servant. Her mother was a McDonald of Scottish ancestry. The Reams also operated a stage coach stop, one of"
"Maggi Hambling Maggi Hambling (born 23 October 1945) is a British painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best-known public works are the sculptures ""A Conversation with Oscar Wilde"" in London and ""Scallop"", a 4-metre-high steel piece on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. Both works have attracted a great degree of controversy. Maggi Hambling was born in Sudbury, Suffolk She had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older than Hambling. Her brother had wanted a brother but ignored the fact that his younger sibling is female and taught her carpentry and"
"Karen Newman (artist) Karen Newman MRBS (born 20 January 1951) is a British-born sculptor, best known for her bronze bust of Violette Szabo on the Albert Embankment of the River Thames, outside Lambeth Palace in London. Newman was trained at the Chelsea School of Art for a Pre-Diploma 1969–1970, then on to the City and Guilds Art School in Kennington, London 1970–1972. From 1980 to 2001 Newman worked at Madame Tussauds in London. Among her subjects were: Newman's life-size waxwork of Charlie Chaplin was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London. In 2008, a bronze bust of Violette Szabo was"
"Liverpool Resurgent Liverpool Resurgent is an artwork by Jacob Epstein, mounted above the main entrance to the former Lewis's department store building in Ranelagh Street, Liverpool. It comprises a large bronze statue and three relief panels. The current Lewis's Building was constructed for Lewis's in 1947 by Fraser, Sons and Geary to designs by Gerald de Courcy Fraser: he had also designed the previous 1920s Lewis's store that had been destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. The main high bronze statue stands on the portico above the entrance. It depicts a naked man standing on a plinth shaped"
"Slater St where he began to sculpt in earnest. He was a subject of the television programme ""This Is Your Life"" in February 1970 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. His medium was usually scrap metal or bronze. He sculpted mainly religious works including the Risen Christ in the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Redemption (a collaborative work with Ann McTavish) in Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral The Resurrection of Christ at Princes Park Methodist Church in Toxteth and a Madonna and Child at St Faith's Church in Crosby. He also produced a tribute to The Beatles in Mathew Street, Liverpool, depicting The"
"Taylor and Tania Rodger, Broadmore launched an internationally touring exhibition, Dr Grordbort's Exceptional Exhibition, which has toured in Hong Kong, Chengdu in China, Germany, France, Switzerland and New Zealand. Broadmore has co-designed public art pieces around New Zealand including the Rocky Horror Show/Richard O’Brien tribute sculpture located in the south end of Victoria St. in Hamilton. The bronze cast statue, called “Riff Raff”, celebrates the birthplace of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and pays tribute to the former home of The Embassy Theatre, where scriptwriter Richard O’Brien cut hair from 1954 to 1964. In 2006 he co-designed and art directed"
"the Penguin Cafe"". Young's sculpture is held in many public as well as private collections. Some of her permanent installations can be seen in St. Paul's Churchyard and Salisbury Cathedral. Young's ""Lunar Disc 1"" was installed at Loyola University Chicago in 2011. Emily Young Emily Young FRBS (born 1951) is a sculptor working in Britain today, who has been called ""Britain's greatest living stone sculptor"". She was born in London into a family of artists, writers and politicians. Her mother was the writer and commentator Elizabeth Young, her father, Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, a politician, conservationist and writer."
"""The Guardian"" opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. Maggi Hambling Maggi Hambling (born 23 October 1945) is a British painter and sculptor. Perhaps her best-known public works are the sculptures ""A Conversation with Oscar Wilde"" in London and ""Scallop"", a 4-metre-high steel piece on Aldeburgh beach dedicated to Benjamin Britten. Both works have attracted a great degree of controversy. Maggi Hambling was born in Sudbury, Suffolk She had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older than Hambling. Her brother had wanted a brother but"
"Arts. McKinlay undertook several sculpture commissions, including a Christ Child for Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and the memorial to Christopher Gray, the vicar of St Margaret's Church in Anfield, Liverpool, who was murdered in 1996. His wife and fellow Manchester Academician Janina Cebertowicz, is a painter and artist recording performances at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester in addition to landscape and still life. North, on Burnley Road, Liam Spencer is among a group of notable painters, sculptors, and print-makers at Prospect Studios, and further along are the Clarke Holme/Valley Artists studios. To the east, at Tollbar in the direction"
"at Bishops Square, Spitalfields, East London, sponsored by the Spitalfields Development Group. This was a silhouette of the nearby Christ Church Spitalfields and was coloured bright red. Group shows have included Tomato Gallery (2001) and Bloomberg Space (2004). Her large scale installations include Lamont Road Passage, Chelsea, London, (2003) and Fontebianca (2003). Eleonora Aguiari Eleonora Aguiari (born 1973)is an Italian installation artist and author, who lives between London and Paris. Her best known work consisted of wrapping a historic statue in London in red tape. Eleonora Aguiari was born in Genoa, Italy. She studied philosophy at the University of Milan."
"Winged Figure Winged Figure (BH 315) is a 1963 sculpture by British artist Barbara Hepworth. One of Hepworth's best known works, it has been displayed in London since April 1963, on Holles Street near the junction with Oxford Street, mounted on the south-east side of the John Lewis department store. It is estimated that the sculpture is seen by approximately 200 million people each year. It was granted a Grade II* listing in January 2016. The new John Lewis store on Oxford Street replaced earlier war-damaged premises. The building was designed by architects Slater & Uren in 1956 and reopened"
"Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley, (born 30 August 1950), is a British sculptor. His best known works include the ""Angel of the North"", a public sculpture in Gateshead in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, ""Another Place"" on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and ""Event Horizon"", a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010, in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2012, and in Hong Kong in 2015–16. In 2008 ""The Daily Telegraph"" ranked Gormley number 4 in their list of the ""100 most"
"John Henry Foley John Henry Foley (24 May 1818 in Dublin – 27 August 1874 in London), often referred to as J. H. Foley, was an Irish sculptor, working in London. he is best known for his statues of Daniel O'Connell in Dublin, and of Prince Albert for the Albert Memorial in London. Foley was born 24 May 1818, at 6 Montgomery Street, Dublin, in what was then the city's artists' quarter. The street has since been renamed Foley Street in his honour. His father was a glass-blower and his step-grandfather Benjamin Schrowder was a sculptor. At the age of"
"28 Leicester Square. From 1833 to 1857 his studio was at 15/16 Great Marlborough Street, London. He died unmarried at 1 Great Castle Street in London. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery in London. Thomas Campbell (sculptor) Thomas Campbell (1 May 1790 – 4 February 1858) was a Scottish sculptor in the early 19th century. He has several important public works, most notably a statue of Sarah Siddons in Westminster Abbey. He also has several works in the National Gallery in London. He was heavily patronised by the British aristocracy, as evidenced by his works. He was born in"
"Augusta Stanley Lady Augusta Elizabeth Frederica Stanley (3 April 1822 - 1 March 1876), was daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Elizabeth Oswald, Countess of Elgin. She was brought up in Paris after her father died. She was lady in waiting to Queen Victoria. She met and later married Arthur P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster at the home of Mary Elizabeth Mohl in Paris. She unveiled Joseph Edgar Boehm's statue of John Bunyan in Bedford in 1874. She is buried alongside her husband in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey. A memorial to Lady Augusta, commissioned by"
"Frances Segelman Frances Segelman (born 1949) is an English sculptor from Leeds. Born in Leeds, Segelman is a friend of the Royal Society of Arts, an associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and is well known for her busts of royalty and celebrity personalities. Amongst others she has sculpted busts of Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Bruce Forsyth, Eamonn Holmes, David Frost, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Jack Rosenthal, Cherie Blair and John Profumo. In 1999 her statue of Leeds United legend Billy Bremner was unveiled at Elland Road."
"Frances Segelman Frances Segelman (born 1949) is an English sculptor from Leeds. Born in Leeds, Segelman is a friend of the Royal Society of Arts, an associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and is well known for her busts of royalty and celebrity personalities. Amongst others she has sculpted busts of Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Bruce Forsyth, Eamonn Holmes, David Frost, Sven-Göran Eriksson, Jack Rosenthal, Cherie Blair and John Profumo. In 1999 her statue of Leeds United legend Billy Bremner was unveiled at Elland Road."
"Edmund Thompson Edmund Charles Thompson MBE (9 May 1898, Belfast – 20 August 1961) was an English sculptor, active in Liverpool between the First and Second World War. The son of sculptor Edmund T. Thompson, he worked in the art deco style and was an admirer of Eric Gill. He worked closely with the architect Herbert James Rowse on many of the latter's buildings, and on civic projects. His work is featured in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (gilded reliefs of Apollo, on the landings) and at the portal of the Queensway Tunnel (basalt statues of 'Day' and 'Night'). He was"
"sculpted at Jones' studio on Church Street, Chelsea, he was visited on one occasion by Queen Alexandra, accompanied by her daughter Princess Victoria, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, Duchess of Sparta, and Prince George of Greece and Denmark. By the following October, the committee changed its mind on the location of the statue. The new War Office building had opened in August, and they requested an amendment to the permission granted by Westminster City Council for a change of building location to place it outside that building instead. Once again, this request was approved. The construction of the plinth was"
"exclaims, ""The Kirby? That's art!"" John Kirby (artist) John Kirby (born 1949 in Liverpool, England) is a British artist known for his paintings exploring issues of gender, religion, sexuality, and race. His work has been compared to that of René Magritte, Balthus and Edward Hopper. Kirby has exhibited internationally and his work is held in several collections including the Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Royal College of Art. John Kirby was born in Liverpool in 1949 and grew up in Tuebrook. He was raised Irish Catholic and attended Saint Cecilia’s primary school as well as serving"
"locally. ""Alexander of Abingdon"" and ""William of Ireland"", both of whom had worked at Westminster Abbey, were apparently the leading sculptors of figures. Upon her death in 1290 at Harby, near the city of Lincoln, the body of Queen Eleanor was carried to Lincoln where she was embalmed, probably either at the Gilbertine priory of St Catherine, Lincoln in the south of Lincoln, or at the priory of the Dominicans. Her viscera, less her heart, were sent to the Angel Choir of Lincoln Cathedral for burial, where they still rest. Her body was then sent to London, taking 12 days"
"The name ""E. Rigby"" is printed on the register, and she is identified as a scullery maid. She also did many things for the Liverpool City Hospital. ""Eleanor Rigby"" does not have a standard pop backing. None of the Beatles played instruments on it, though John Lennon and George Harrison did contribute harmony vocals. Like the earlier song ""Yesterday"", ""Eleanor Rigby"" employs a classical string ensemble—in this case an octet of studio musicians, comprising four violins, two violas, and two cellos, all performing a score composed by producer George Martin. Where ""Yesterday"" is played legato, ""Eleanor Rigby"" is played mainly"
"Homage to Leonardo Homage to Leonardo, sometimes referred to as Vitruvian Man for being a representation of the drawing of the same name by Leonardo da Vinci, is an outdoor statue by Italian sculptor Enzo Plazzotta, located at Belgrave Square in London, United Kingdom. The statue was completed posthumously by Plazzotta's assistant Mark Holloway in 1982, and was installed in 1984. An inscription on the front of the base reads: ""Homage to Leonardo"". The back of the base includes the inscription: ""Homage to Leonardo / From the original conception by the Italian sculptor Enzo Plazzotta (1921 - 1981). Completed by"
"Alexander Stoddart Alexander ""Sandy"" Stoddart (born 1959) is a Scottish sculptor, who, since 2008, has been the Queen's Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland. He works primarily on figurative sculpture in clay within the neoclassical tradition. Stoddart is best known for his civic monuments, including bronze statues of David Hume and Adam Smith, philosophers during the Scottish Enlightenment, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, and others of James Clerk Maxwell, William Henry Playfair and John Witherspoon. Stoddart says of his own motivation, ""My great ambition is to do sculpture for Scotland"", primarily through large civic monuments to figures from the country's"
"Alice Bertha Moreton Alice Bertha Moreton (née Tippin; 23 March 1901 – 6 January 1977) was an English sculptor, draughtsman, and artist from Liverpool, England. Alice was originally self-taught, experimenting with art and sculpture in the years following her departure from Bootle Secondary School. Alice then spent a few years at the Bootle School of Art, before training at the Liverpool School of Art. Following this, she studied at the prestigious Royal Academy Schools (1924 – 1928), where she exhibited many times. In her time there, she was taught by Sir William Reid Dick, George Frampton and Ernest Jackson. Alice"
"the shore at Viareggio in Italy after his drowning, sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford, associated with the New Sculpture movement. It is housed on a decorative plinth in a small domed late Victorian room designed by Basil Champneys, behind ornamental railings that protect it from students. The statue was commissioned by Shelley's daughter-in-law, Lady Shelley. It was originally intended to be located in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome where Shelley is buried, at the request of adventurer Edward John Trelawny, a friend of Shelley. Trelawny wanted to have a monument of the poet next to his own. However, Trelawny's descendants"
"""All the lonely people"", and was donated to the City of Liverpool in 1982 as a tribute to The Beatles. A hotel called 'The Eleanor Rigby Hotel' is also located here. At the time when The Beatles were performing in Liverpool, Stanley Street was the site of Hessy's Music Store, one of the city's biggest music retailers. It was here that Mimi Smith (John Lennon's aunt), bought Lennon his first guitar in 1957. The street has also been home to an independent radio station, Radio City. Stanley Street is also very much a focal point for Liverpool's LGBT community and"
"in the High Street. It is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Three notable bronze sculptures can be seen in or from the High Street by major sculptors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, the earliest a monumental statue of Queen Victoria, now in the Great Hall, by Sir Alfred Gilbert (also known as the sculptor of 'Eros' in London's Piccadilly Circus), King Alfred, facing the city with raised sword from the centre of The Broadway, by Hamo Thornycroft and the modern striking ""Horse and Rider"" by Dame Elizabeth Frink at the entrance to the Law Courts. The novelist Jane Austen"
"Statue of Sherlock Holmes, London A statue of Sherlock Holmes by the sculptor John Doubleday stands near the supposed site of 221B Baker Street, the fictional detective's address in London. Unveiled on 23 September 1999, the sculpture was funded by the Abbey National building society, whose headquarters were on the purported site of the famous address. As no site was available on Baker Street itself the statue was installed outside Baker Street tube station, on Marylebone Road. Doubleday had previously produced a statue of Holmes for the town of Meiringen in Switzerland, below the Reichenbach Falls whence the detective fell"