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BOEHM, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR

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BOEHM, See also:SIR See also:JOSEPH See also:EDGAR , See also:Bart. (1834–1890), See also:British sculptor, was See also:born of Hungarian parentage on the 4th of See also:July 1834 at See also:Vienna, where his See also:father was director of the imperial See also:mint. After studying the plastic See also:art in See also:Italy and at See also:Paris, he worked for a few years as a medallist in his native See also:city. After a further See also:period of study in See also:England, he was so successful as an exhibitor at the See also:Exhibition of 1862 that he determined to abandon the See also:execution of coins and medals, and to give his mind to portrait busts and statuettes, chiefly equestrian. The See also:colossal statue of See also:Queen See also:Victoria, executed in See also:marble (1869) for See also:Windsor See also:Castle, and the See also:monument of the See also:duke of See also:Kent in St See also:George's See also:chapel, were his earliest See also:great See also:works, and so entirely to the See also:taste of'his royal patrons that he See also:rose rapidly in favour with the See also:court. He was made A.R.A. in 1878, and produced soon afterwards the statue of See also:Carlyle on the See also:Thames See also:embankment at See also:Chelsea. In 1881 he was appointed sculptor in See also:ordinary to the queen, and in the ensuing See also:year became full Academician. On the See also:death of See also:Dean See also:Stanley, Boehm was commissioned to execute his See also:sarcophagus in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, and his achievement, a recumbent statue, has been pronounced to be one of the best portraits in See also:modern See also:sculpture. Less successful was his monument to See also:General See also:Gordon in St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral. He executed the equestrian statue of the duke of See also:Wellington at See also:Hyde See also:Park Corner, and designed the coinage for the See also:Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. Among his ideal subjects should be noted the " Herds-See also:man and See also:Bull." He died suddenly in his studio at See also:South See also:Kensington on the 12th of See also:December 189o.

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