Henry Hugh Armstead (1828-1905)

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Biography

• A Contemporary Introduction and Appreciation

Albert Memorial

• The Great Poets
• The Great Painters
• The Great Composers
• Geometry
• Chemistry
• Rhetoric
• Astronomy

Other Monuments and Fountains

• George Edmund Street Memorial
• Founder's Fountain, King's College Cambridge

The Foreign and Colonial Office (works by Armstead and J. Birnie Philip)

• Britannia and Her Companions (parapet figures)
• The Continents
• America
• Australasia
• Africa
• Asia
• Europe
• Relief portraits on the façade
• Cook
• Franklin
• Wilberforce
• Livingstone
• Drake
• Elizabeth
• Alfred
• Edward the Confesor, an Angel, and Christianity
• Ethelbert
• Smith
• Sinclair
• Bacon

Funereal sculpture

• Bishop Samuel Wilberforce's Tomb (with Scott), Winchester Cathedral
• Monument to Charles Ashwell Boteler Pocock (with Frederick Walker)

Decorative and applied arts

• Bronze angel supporting lectern in Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street (the "Arts and Crafts Church") (side view)

Book Illustration

• Wilmott's English Sacred Poetry

References

Read, Benedict. Victorian Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

"Henry Hugh Armstead." English Artists of the Present Day. Essays by J. Beavington Atkinson, Sidney Colvin, F. G. Stephens, Tom Taylor, and John L. Tupper. London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1872, 61-66. [full text].

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Last modified 8 November 2011