Portraiture is to most sculptors
what steam is to machines, for it sets
them in motion and it keeps them going.
They would soon be idle for want of it.
But even if the great majority of them can turn
out attractive portrait busts, it does not necessarily
follow that art gains much thereby. Indeed, there
are many who contend that art loses much, for it is
a rare thing to meet with a sculptor who can satisfy
his sitters and their relatives and yet produce such
good work as commands admiration both by the
freedom of its style and by the subtle and fearless
truth of the character revealed by it. Without
these qualities of art a portrait bust is not worth
much more attention than
a good photograph. That
most English sculptors are
apt to give insufficient
attention to this fact is well
known. — The Studio
Busts and, less commonly, statues carried the funerary tradition into
the world of the living. The features of the Duke of Wellington, Walter
Scott, George IV and James Watt are so familiar now because Chantrey
created the icon. Reproduced down the decades, they have burned into
the national memory: the Duke of Wellington's nose, James Watt's mouth,
the jowls of George IV, all hang on a marble peg. . . . The business of art in the nineteenth century was as
much to promote the status quo as it was to delight, to challenge and to
change. — James Hamilton
Actors and Actresses
Martin Harvey
Sir Henry Irving
Ellaline Terriss (Toft)
Ellen Terry
Lewis Waller
Authors
Lord Belfast
Walter Besant (Frampton)
Robert Browning
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Robert Burns (Edinburgh)
Robert Burns (Ewing)
Robert Burns (Lawson)
Robert Burns (Amelia Hill)
John Bunyan (Garbe)
Thomas Carlyle (Thomas)
Thomas Carlyle (Gallery)
Thomas Campbell
John Clare
Cicero
John Wilson Croker (Chantrey)
W. S. Gilbert (Frampton)
Oliver Goldsmith (Foley)
Thomas Hughes (Brock)
Charles Kingsley (Woolner)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Brock)
Thomas Babbington Macaulay (Thomas)
John Milton (Daymond)
Tom Moore
Coventry Patmore (Woolner)
Charles Reade
John Ruskin (Gallery)
Sir William Howard Russell (war correspondent)
William Shakespeare (Daymond)
W. T. Stead (Frampton)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (Woolner)
Architects
Charles Barry (Bates)
George Basevi (Mazzotti)
Alfred W. Bayes (Bayes)
Bramante
William Chambers (Bayes)
R. Cosway (Gillick)
Inigo Jones (Wheatley)
Edward Welby Pugin
Sir Robert Smirke
J. D. Sedding and His Wife Rose (Pomeroy)
John Thorpe (Rollins)
Charles Harrison Townsend (Derwent Wood)
William Wilkins (Baily)
Christopher Wren (Wheatley)
Painters
Edwin Austin Abbey (Brock)
George Barrett, Jr. (Ford)
Frank Brangwyn
Robert Brough (Derwent Wood)
Ralph Caldecott (Gilbert)
John Constable (V. Hill)
John Robert Cozens (Ford)
Thomas Gainsborough (Babb)
Godfrey Kneller (Thomas)
Thomas Lawrence (Thomas)
Frederic Lord Leighton (Brock)
The Lord Leighton Memorial (Brock)
Frederic Lord Leighton (Boyes)
Lely (Thomas)
MichelAngelo
Sir John Everett Millais
Thomas Girtin (Ford)
Hans Holbein (Thomas)
William Hogarth (Durham)
William Hogarth (Sheppard)
William Hogarth (Thomas)
William Henry Hunt (Ford)
Sir John Everett Millais (Myrander)
Sir John and Lady Millais (Boehm)
William Mulready (Sykes)
Sir Joseph Noel Paton (V. Hill)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (Armstead or Philip)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (Sheppard)
Sir Joshua Reynolds (Thomas)
George Romney (Babb)
Paul Sandby (Ford)
Titian
J. M. W. Turner (Ford)
J. M. W. Turner (Gillick)
J. M. W. Turner (MacDowell)
J. M. W. Turner (Collins)
Anthony van Dyke (Thomas)
G. F. Watts (Gilbert)
G. F. Watts (Goulden)
Sculptors
John Bacon (Frith)
Sir Francis Chantrey (Pegram)
Sir Francis Chantrey (Thomas)
John Flaxman (Pegram)
J. H. Foley (Gamble)
Auguste Rodin (Tweed)
Roubiliac (Thomas)
Alfred Stevens (Gamble)
Designers and Craftsmen
Huntington Shaw (Broadbent)
Thomas Chippendale (Hodge)
William Caxton (Montford)
Grinling Gibbons (Frith)
William Morris (Walker)
Roger Payne (Walker)
Thomas Tompion (Broadbent)
William Torel (Jenkins)
Josiah Wedgwood (Hodge)
Musicians, Composers, and Impressarios
John Ella (Hamo Thornycroft)
Sir Augustus Harris (Brock)
Ignace Jan Paderewski (Gilbert)
Arthur Sullivan (John)
Royalty
Queen Victoria (Gallery)
King Alfred the Great (Armstead or Philip)
King Edward VII (Brock)
King Edward VII (Mackennal)
King Edward VII (March)
King Edward the Confesor, an Angel, and Christianity (Armstead or Philip)
Queen Elizabeth I (Armstead or Philip)
King Ethelbert (Armstead or Philip)
George IV (Chantrey)
King George V (March)
King George V (Frampton)
Queen Mary (Frampton)
Military Figures
Lieutenant General Sir Ralph Abercrombie, K. B.
Major General Lousada Barrow (Mullins)
The Black Prince, Edward Prince of Wales (Brock)
Colin Campbell, Field Marshal Lord Clyde
Major-General Thomas Dundas (Bacon)
Major-General Sir Herbert Edwardes (Foley)
General Charles Gordon (Hamo Thornycroft)
General Charles Gordon (Pomeroy)
General Charles Gordon (Theed)
Earl Haig (Wade)
Major General Sir Henry Havelock (Behnes)
Sir John Hope, fourth Earl of Hopetoun
Lt. Col William Martin Leake (Behnes)
Admiral Edmund Lord Lyons
Captain Edward Mowbray Lyons
Admiral Sir Pultney Malcolm
Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (Bacon)
Charles James Napier (Adams)
Charles James Napier
General William Francis Patrick Napier (Adams)
Horatio Lord Nelson (Baily)
Brigadier General John Nicholson (Brock)
Memorial to Charles Berkeley Pigott
Captain Henry Langhorne Thompson, C. B.
Basil Webb
Monuments to the Duke of Wellington
The Wellington Monument, St. Paul's (Stevens)
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Politicians and statesmen
Duke of Albany
Duke of York
George Canning (Westmacott)
Lord W. G. F. Cavendish Bentinck
Robert Lord Clive (Tweed)
Richard Cobden (Noble)
Oliver Cromwell (Noble)
Oliver Cromwell (Hamo Thornycroft)
Lord Derby (Noble)
Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield)
Sir Daniel Dixon (Hamo Thornycroft)
Captain George Duff (Bacon)
First Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (Pomeroy)
Sir E. Hornby (Pomeroy)
Francis Light
Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (Young)
Lord Salisbury, R. Gascoyne-Cecil (Bruce Joy)
G. Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
Charles James Fox (Westmacott)
Bartle Frere (Brock)
W. E. Gladstone (Hamo Thornycroft)
William Gladstone (Brock)
William Gladstone, Liverpool (Brock)
William Gladstone (Hamo Thornycroft, Glasgow)
William Gladstone (Acton-Adams)
Charles, Earl Grey (Baily)
Warren Hastings
Sidney Herbert (Walker)
Rowland Hill (Ford)
Rowland Hill (Theed)
Sir Rowland Hill (Brock)
R.G. Hill-Snook
William Huskisson (Gibson)
Sir John Jenkins
Lord Lawrence, Viceroy of India (Boehm)
Lord Lawrence, Viceroy of India (Woolner)
Sir John Alexander Macdonald
Sir Thomas More (Daymond)
Daniel O'Connell (Foley)
John Oswald (Marochetti)
Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (Noble)
Sir Henry Parkes (Brock)
Sir Robert Peel (Noble)
Sir Robert Peel (Manchester)
William Pitt the Younger (Westmacott)
Cecil Rhodes (Derwent Wood)
Sir Stamford Raffles (Woolner)
Sir Cowasfee Jehanghir Readimoney (Woolner)
Richard John Seddon (Brock)
Henry Shrubsole (Williamson)
Sir Lakshmiswar Bahadur Singh, Maharajah of Darbhanga (Ford)
Herbert Stewart
Sir Richard Temple (Brock)
William Wilberforce (Armstead or Philip)
Sir Guy Fleetwood Wilson (Hampton)
Sir John Woodburn (John)
Explorers
Joseph René Bellot
Captain James Cook (Armstead or Philip)
Captain James Cook (Brock)
Christopher Columbus (Chavalliaud)
Sir Francis Drake (Armstead or Philip)
Sir John Franklin (Noble)
David Livingstone (gallery)
David Livingstone
Robert Falcon Scott (Scott)
Robert Falcon Scott (Babb)
Ernest H. Shackleton (Jagger)
Scientists, Engineers, and Inventors
Archimedes (Woodington)
William Babington, M.D. F.R.S. (Behnes)
George Russell Cockerell
Sir Astley Patson Cooper (Bacon)
Georges Cuvier
John Dalton (Chantrey)
Charles Darwin (Chavalliaud)
Charles Darwin (Boehm)
Humphrey Davy (Sykes, Gamble, Townroe)
Humphrey Davy (Noble)
Galen
Thomas Graham
Sir Edward Harland
Sir James Haslett (Pomeroy)
William Harvey (Durham)
John Hunter (Noble)
T. H. Huxley (Ford)
James Prescott Joule (Gilbert)
Lord Kelvin
Pierre Simon Laplace
Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence
Carl Linnæus
Joseph Lord Lister (Brock)
Joseph Lord Lister, Westminster Abbey (Brock)
Joseph Lord Lister, Portland Place (Brock)
Robert Milligan (Westmacott)
Sir Isaac Newton (Daymond)
Sir Isaac Newton (Durham)
Sir Richard Owen (Brock)
Sir Isaac Pitman (Brock)
Joseph Priestley (Drury)
Joseph Priestley (Bayes)
Joseph Priestley (Williamson)
Adam Sedgwick (Woolner)
Sir William Reardom Smith
George Stephenson (Lough)
Robert Stephenson (Marochetti)
James Watt (Victoria & Albert)
James Watt (Chantrey)
Philosophers
Professor Robert Adamson (Bayes)
Aristotle
Francis Bacon (Armstead or Philip)
Francis Bacon (Pomeroy)
Francis Bacon (Theed)
Sir Francis Bacon (Royal Academy)
Sir Francis Bacon (Daymond)
Francis Bacon (Woolner)
Jeremy Bentham (Durham)
Edmund Burke (Foley)
David Hume (Noble)
Justinian (Woodington)
Gottfried Leibnitz
John Locke (Theed)
John Locke (Westmacott)
John Stuart Mill (Woolner)
Plato (Woodington)
Henry Sidgwick (Bayes)
Adam Smith (Theed)
Ecclesiastics
Thomas Becket
James Rice Buckley (John)
Bishop Sir Edwyn Hoskyns (Reynolds-Stephens)
John Henry Newman (Woolner)
Bishop Brownlow North
Henry Philpott, Bishop of Worcester (Brock)
Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury
Tomb of Bishop Wilberforce
William Wykeham (Rollins)
Philanthropists
Alexander Balfour
William Haig Brown (Bates)
The 3rd Marquess of Bute
Sir Charles Cameron (Tinworth)
Dr. Henry Cooke)
John Cory (John)
John Howard
Quintin Hogg
John Howard (Gilbert)
John Howard (St. Paul's Cathedral)
Canon Thomas Major Lester
The Tombs of Lord Leverhulme and His Wife
Florence Nightingale (Walker)
Florence Nightingale (Merrett)
Mgr. James Nugent
Robert Raikes (Brock)
William Rathbone
Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney
George and Sir Richard Tangye
Sir Henry Tate
Eminent Ladies and Other Individuals
Lady Belhaven and Stenton
Harriet Elizabeth, Lady Beresford (Westmacott)
Mrs. Herbert Cory (John)
Elsie Doncaster (Drury)
Hannah Findlay
Muriel Goscombe John
Mr. and Mrs. Macloghlin (Gilbert)
Eliza Millard Macloghlin (Gilbert)
Mary Peal
Dame Edith Smyth (Bayes)
Lady Catherine Stepney
Dwarkamath Tagore (Weekes)
Lady Tata CBE (Bayes)
W. C. Wentworth (Woolner)
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