The Art of Sculpture in Victorian Britain

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It used to be assumed that sculpture was the original art of prehistoric man and that drawing and painting were much later acquisitions. This view was based on the erroneous idea that sculpture involved a much simpler process of reproduction than drawing — the idea that modelling or carving in the round was a process of direct imitiation, whereas drawing or painting required the translation of three-dimensional experience into two-dimensional abstraction. Nothing could be farther from the psychological facts. Volume, the notion of three-dimensional mass, is not given by direct visual perception. We see objects from several points of view and retain one particular and signicant aspect of a memory image. . . . It therefore requires an imaginative or at least a mental effort to pass beyond the memory image and construct a three-dimensional inage. We are aided in this task by other sensations or by the memory of such sensations — sensations of weight or touch — but this fact only serves to emphasize the complicated mental procedure involved in the conception and the representation of the solidity of a solid object. — Sir Herbert Read, The Art of Sculpture, p. 26-27

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Charles Jagger, 1885-1934 Frank Lynn Jenkins, 1870-1927 William Goscombe John, 1860-1952 Adrian Jones, 1845-1938 Samuel Joseph, 1791-1850 Charles J. Samuel Kelsey, c.1820-88 Eric Henri Kennington, 1888-1960 Thomas Kirk, 1781-1845 Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, , 1802-1873 Helen Langley, fl. 1890s Edouard Lanteri, 1848-1917 John Lawlor George Anderson Lawson Charles W. Layzell, fl. 1910-18 Thomas Stirling Lee, 1857-1916 Alphonse Legros Frederic Lord Leighton, P. 1830-1896 Alexander J. Leslie Ruby Levick, fl. 1890s John Graham Lough, 1798-1876 Richard Cockle Lucas, 1800-1883 Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, 1860-1925 Charles Henry Mabey, c. 1836-1912 Patrick McDowell, 1799-1870 David McGill, c. 1864-1947 James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, 1856-1938 Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal, 1863-1931 Thomas Eyre Macklin, 1863-1943 Samuel Manning, Jnr., 1815-66 Sydney March, 1875-1968 William Calder Marshall Baron Carlo (Charles) Marochetti, 1805-67 Edith C. Maryon Eleanor Mercer, fl. 1890-1910 Hubert Miller Thomas Milnes, 1813-1888 Paul Raphael Montford (1868-1948) John Mossman, 1817-1890) Edwin Roscoe Mullins, 1848-1907 Alexander Munro, 1825-1871 W. G. Nicholl Thomas Nicholls (fl. 1853-95) Matthew Noble Herbert W. Palliser, 1883-1963 Harold Parker George Henry Paulin, 1888-1962 Alfred Bertram Pegram, 1895-1939 Henry Alfred Pegram, 1862-1937 John Birnie Philip, 1824-75 Joseph Phillips, fl. 1924 Thomas Phyffers, c.1820-76 Edward James Physick, 1820-1906 Charles James Pibworth, 1878-1958 Frederick W. Pomeroy, 1856-1924 Percy Portsmouth Sir Edward John Poynter, 1839-1919 Hugues Protat James Redfern, 1838-76 William Reynolds-Stephens, 1862-1949 William Birnie Rhind, 1873-1933 Charles de Sousy Ricketts, 1866-1931 John Wenlock Rollins, 1862-1940 Dorothy Anne Aldrich Rope Ellen Mary Rope, 1855-1934 Louis Frederick Roslyn, 1878-1934 Thomas Rudge C. Rutland Henry Thomas Schafer, 1851-1915[?] F. E. E. Schenck Kathleen Scott, Baroness Kennet, 1878-1947 Reuben Sheppard, fl. 1906 Robert Sievier, 1794-1865 George Blackall Simonds, 1843-1929 Lilian Simpson, 1871-97 Theodore Spicer Simson, 1896-1923 Benjamin Spence, c.1822-1866 Oscar Spalmach, 1864-1917 Edward Caldwell Spruce, 1849-1923 Phoebe Gertrude Stabler, 1879-1955 John Steell, 1804-91 Florence Harriet Steele, 1857-1948 Edward Bowring Stephens, c.1815-82 Alfred Stevens, 1817-1876 W. Grant Stevenson Godfrey Sykes Thomas Tarran, 1851-1933 Frank Mowbray Taubman J.E. Taylerson William Theed, Jr. Frederick Thomas John Thomas, 1813-1862 Mary Thornycroft, 1814-1895 Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft , 1850-1925) Thomas Thornycroft, 1815-1885 George Tinworth, 1843-1913 Albert Toft, 1862-1949 Reuben Townroe Baron H.-J.-F. de Triqueti, 1803-1874 John Lucas Tupper, 1824?-1879) Alfred Turner , 1874-1940 John Tweed, 1869-1933 George Edward Wade, 1853-1933 Arthur George Walker, , 1861-1936 Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson George Frederick Watts, , 1817-1904 Reginald Fairfax Wells, 1877-1933 Oliver Wheatley, 1868-1931 Sir Charles Wheeler, 1892-1974 Henry Weekes James Sherwood Westmacott, 1823-1900 Sir Richard Westmacott, Junior, 1775-1856 Arthur Charles White, c.1874-1924 John Whitehead, active 1889-95 G. A. Williams L. Gwendolyn Williams, ?-1955 Francis John Williamson, 1833-1920 John Warrington Wood, 1839-1886 William Frederick Woodington, 1806-1893 Thomas Woolner Francis Derwent Wood, 1871-1926 Marshall Wood, active 1856-78 Frank Arnold Wright, 1874-1961 Richard James Wyatt, 1795-1850 Edward William Wyon, 1811-85 A. Stanley Young Sculpture from other countries British sculptors in India France Italy The United States of America

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