Francis John Williamson

Francis John Williamson ( born July 17, 1833 in Hampstead, London, † March 12, 1920 in Esher, Surrey ) was a British sculptor who created portraits of well-known personalities, including a bust of Queen Victoria and persons from their family and their environment.

He studied with John Bell and was seven years a student of John Henry Foley and another 14 years his assistant. Williamson 1853-1897 38 exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts. During this time he first met Victoria. In 1870, she commissioned him, a Memorial for Charlotte Augusta of Wales, the daughter of George IV, and her husband Leopold I build. Many members of the royal family sat for Williamson model, and in 1887 he created a bust of Queen of the Golden Jubilee, were shown by the numerous copies in the British Empire.

Williamson received a number of orders from the city of Birmingham, including a bust of Shakespeare scholar Samuel Timmins, which is now in the Library of Birmingham, a marble statue of the critical theologian and natural philosopher Joseph Priestley, whose bronze cast now stands at Chamberlain Square, a Statue of industrialist Sir Josiah Mason ( destroyed, but there is a bronze cast of 1952 by William Bloye in the Erdington district ), a statue of the preacher and reformer George Dawson ( destroyed), a statue of the social reformer John Skirrow Wright ( destroyed, a bronze cast from 1956 is located in Birmingham Council House), and the base of the decoration Museum Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, known as Allegory of Fame Rewarding the Arts ( Allegory of the Fama, which distinguishes the Arts). A copy of his bust of Tennyson (1893 ) located at the National Portrait Gallery.

He met his future wife, Elizabeth Smith, in Esher, and they married in 1857. 1860 he moved house and studio Fairholme, 79, High Street, Esher, where he died. The building, " The Bunch of Grapes " was called later and is now called " Grapes House " is extant, with a blue plaque, which was placed in memory to him from the Esher Residents Association 2010.

Selected Works

  • Bust of Samuel Timmins, now in the Library of Birmingham
  • Statue of Sister Dora, Walsall
  • Memorial for Prince Leopold and Princess Charlotte, now in St. George 's Church, Esher
  • Bust of the Duke of Albany, Christ Church, Esher
  • Diamond Jubilee Memorial, Esher
  • Tomb of William Brett, 1st Viscount Esher and Viscountess, Esher, Christchurch churchyard, Esher
  • Memorial for Henry Shrubsole, Market Place, Kingston -upon -Thames
  • Bust of Tennyson
  • Bust of Queen Victoria, copied many
  • Hypatia
  • His Royal Highness Prince Edward of York
  • Jesus as the Good Shepherd
  • Allegory of Fame Rewarding the Arts, the base of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (1884 )
  • Statue of Sir Josiah Mason (1885, destroyed) Cast bronze bust of William Bloye (1952 )
  • Cast bronze statue of Bloye (1951; stolen, probably destroyed)
  • Cast bronze statue of Bloye (1956 )
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