Bishop James Johnson - Worcester Cathedral
This bust of Bishop of Worcester James Johnson (d1774), is by Joseph Nollekens.
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Thomas Street - Worcester Cathedral
This memorial to Sir Thomas Street (d1696) is the work of the sculptor Joseph Wilton a founding member of the Royal Academy, and was made around 1774.
Sarah Morley monument - Gloucester Cathedral.
This monument by John Flaxman is to Sarah Morley (d1784) who died a few days after giving birth whilst travelling back to England from India. Both Sarah and her child were buried at sea.
19th century church monuments
Church brasses, tomb chests, effigies, and sculpture from 1900 - 2000 AD.
Richard Solly - Worcester Cathedral
Monument to Richard Solly (d1803) by John Bacon Jr.
Vittorio Alfieri Tomb - San Croce, Florence
Count Vittorio Alfier (d1803) was an Italian poet and dramatist who wrote some 19 tragedies between 1775-1787.
Wailes, William
William Wailes (1808-1881) was born in Newcastle and originally started grocery and tea-dealing business. He studied the manufacture of stained glass in Munich in the 1830s, and by 1838 start his own company in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Col Sir Henry Walton Ellis - Worcester Cathedral
This monument placed by the officers and men of the royal Welch Fusiliers is by John Bacon Jr. It depicts Col Sir Henry Walton Ellis falling from his horse, with Victory crowning him with a Laurel wreath.
Sleeping Children - Lichfield Cathdral
Sculpted from white marble by Sir Frances Chantrey, this memorial is to the two daughters of Ellen-Jane Robinson, Ellen-Jane and Marianne.
Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown was born on 16 April 1821 in Calais to English parents, and received his artistic training at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp, where the rigorous academic tradition left a lasting imprint on his draftsmanship and compositional discipline. Though Brown spent much of his early life moving between the Continent and England, he established himself in London during the 1840s as a painter of historical and moral subjects.