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Sir Richard Westmacott RA (15 July 1775 – 1 September 1856) was a British sculptor. [1] Life and career. Westmacott studied with his father, also named Richard Westmacott, at his studio in Mount Street, off Grosvenor Square in London before going to Rome in 1793 to study under Antonio Canova. [2] .
Richard Westmacott II (1775–1856) Sir John Soane’s Museum. (b London, 15 July 1775; d London, 1 Sept. 1856). English Neoclassical sculptor. The son of a sculptor also called Richard (1747–1808), he trained first under his father and then from 1793 to 1796 in Rome, where he worked in Canova's studio. After his return to London, he soon had ...
During the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century, Sir Richard Westmacott flourished as Great Britain's most successful official sculptor, producing approximately 275 works during his forty-year career. Westmacott's oeuvre displays a rich stylistic diversity, drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Baroque art as well as from ...
Scultore (Londra 1775 - ivi 1856). Studiò a Roma (1793-96), dove frequentò A. Canova e acquistò marmi antichi. Autore di numerosi monumenti funebri e commemorativi, le sue opere più note sono il monumento a Ch. J. Fox (1810-23), in Westminster Abbey; l' Achille colossale in Hyde Park (1822); la statua del duca di York sulla colonna di ...
Sir Richard Westmacott. primary name:Westmacott, Richard. Details. individual; sculptor/medallist; academic/intellectual; British; Male. Life dates. 1775-1856. Biography. Sculptor; Royal Academician, Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy; responsible for the design of 'The Progress of Civilization', the sculpture for British Museum pediment.
Scope and Content. The archive contains nine sketchbooks and two portfolios of drawings by various members of the Westmacott family. These comprise two albums of sketchbooks by Sir Richard Westmacott; the first contains studies of Antique and Renaissance sculpture and landscapes and the second is a topographical sketchbook of Scotland and England.
Sir Richard Westmacott RA (1775 - 1856) RA Collection: People and Organisations. Richard Westmacott was born in London the son of Richard Westmacott, a sculptor, and Sarah Vardy, the daughter of a furniture carver. His father worked as a chimney piece sculptor and maker of church monuments.
