Bertram Mackennal
Sir Bertram Mackennal | |
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Sir Bertram Mackennal | |
| Born | Edgar Bertram Mackennal 12 June 1863 Melbourne, Australia |
| Died | 10 October 1931 (aged 68) |
| Education | Melbourne National Gallery |
| Known for | Sculptor |
| Awards | KCVO |
Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal KCVO RA (12 June 1863 – 10 October 1931) was an Australian sculptor and medallist.
Selected works
- Five Foolish Virgins, relief, (exhibited 1886)
- Sculptured reliefs, Parliament House, Melbourne (installed 1887)
- Louis Buvelot, bust, National Gallery of Victoria (1892)[3]
- Head of a Saint, (1892), marble bust, exhibited at Paris Salon (1892), single bronze relief also in existence from 1892. https://web.archive.org/web/20161027055328/http://postimg.org/image/yla0thbq3/
- Circe, bronze figure, National Gallery of Victoria (exhibited 1893)[3]
- Sarah Bernhardt, bust (1893), exhibited at the Paris Salon of (1894)[4]
- Truth, bronze statuette, Art Gallery of New South Wales (1894)[5]
- For She Sitteth on a Seat in the High Places of the City (Rahab), location unknown, (exhibited 1895)
- Figure over doorway, Mercantile Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne
- Pediment, New Government Offices, Whitehall, Westminster, London (1898)
- Dame Nellie Melba, bust, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (1899)
- Queen Victoria, seated bronze, the British Embassy gardens, Bangkok (1900)
- Queen Victoria, statues, Ballarat, Lahore and Blackburn (c.1901)
- Oceania, Union, University & Schools Club, Sydney
- Springthorpe Memorial, sculptures, Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, (1901)
- Sir William John Clarke, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne (1901)
- Boer War Memorial, (Victory), entrance to Highbury Fields, Islington (1903)
- The Dancer, bronze life-size statue, Art Gallery of New South Wales (1904)[6]
- War (Bellona or Victory), Sculpture Garden, Australian War Memorial, Canberra (sculpted 1906)
- Memorial to Sir Peter Nicol Russell, East Finchley Cemetery, London and University of Sydney (1906–09)
- The Earth and the Elements (marble group), Tate Gallery (exhibited 1907)
- Sir William Howard Russell, bust, The Crypt, St Paul's Cathedral, London (1907)
- Olympic Games Medals, London, 1908[1]
- Diana Wounded, bronze, Tate Gallery (purchased 1908)
- King George V coinage and medals (signed BM) and postage stamps (1910)
- Tomb for Edward VII (with Edward Lutyens), St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (commissioned 1910)
- National Memorial to Thomas Gainsborough, Sudbury, Suffolk
- Apollo, Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire.
- King George V, marble portrait statue, formerly situated at the Flower Bazaar Police Station, Madras, now at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi (1916)
- King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue mounted on archway, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta (1916)[7]
- King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue, Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne (unveiled 1920)
- King Edward VII, bronze statue (and associated figures), Adelaide (unveiled 1920)
- King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue, Waterloo Place London (1921)
- Parliamentary War Memorial, London
- War Memorial, Corporation Park, Blackburn, Lancashire (1922)
- War Memorial, Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire, England
- Here I Am figure for Eton College War Memorial (now at National Gallery of Victoria) (1923)[3]
- Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun, Australia House, The Strand, London, (installed 1923)
- 1914–1918 War Memorial Mother Courage, Caledonian Club, Belgravia, London (unveiled 1923 by Vice President, Field Marshal Earl Haig, with Sir Bertram in attendance.)
- Cardinal Moran and Archbishop Kelly, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
- Shakespeare Memorial, Shakespeare Place, Sydney (1926)
- The Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney (1929)
- Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, tomb effigy at All Saints' church, Kedleston, Derbyshire (1913)[8]
- George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, monument, All Saints' church, Kedleston (1931)[8]
- Marquess Curzon, statue, Carlton House Terrace, London
- Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, Port Said (1931) (now at Mount Clarence, Albany, Western Australia)
See also
References
- ^ a b Hutchison, Noel S. (2007). Mackennal, Sir Edgar Bertram (1863–1931). MUP. pp. 301–302. Retrieved 30 September 2009.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, ed. 1911, vol. 24, pg. 505, Plate IV.
- ^ a b c "Bertram Mackennal". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ Mackennal, Edgar Bertram in: L. Forrer: Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Volume III, London 1907, p. 521.
- ^ Mackennal, Bertram (1894). "Truth". AGNSW collection record. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Mackennal, Bertram (1904). "The dancer". AGNSW collection record. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Mary Ann Steggles & Richard Barnes (2011). British Sculpture in India: New Views & Old Memories. Frontier Publishing. ISBN 9781872914411.
- ^ a b Kedleston Hall (The National Trust, 1988), p. 61
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edgar Bertram Mackennal.
- Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
- Bertrand Mackennal at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Mackennals war sculptures in Australia
- The Victoria Web: Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal
- A&A art and architecture: Mackennal, Edgar Bertram
- Review of exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria 2008 by Tony Lloyd