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See also:WESTMACOTT, See also:SIR See also:RICHARD (1775-1856) , See also:British sculptor, was See also:born in See also:London, and while yet a boy learned the rudiments of the plastic See also:art in the studio of his See also:father, who was then a sculptor of some reputation. In 1793, at the See also:age of eighteen, he went to See also:Rome and became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Canova, then at the height of his fame. Under the prevailing influences of See also:Italy at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, Westmacott devoted all his energies to the study of classical See also:sculpture, and throughout his See also:life his real sympathies were with See also:pagan rather than with See also:Christian art. Within a See also:year of his arrival in Rome he won the first See also:prize for sculpture offered by the Florentine See also:academy of arts, and in the following year (1795) he gained the papal See also:gold See also:medal awarded by the See also:Roman Academy of St See also:Luke with his bas-See also:relief of See also:Joseph and his brethren. In 1798, on the 20th of See also:February, he married Dorothy See also:Margaret, daughter of Dr See also:Wilkinson of See also:Jamaica. On his return to London Westmacott began to exhibit his See also:works yearly at the Royal Academy, the first See also:work so exhibited being
See also:Commission also made recommendations for the reduction of the high See also:cable rates between the See also:West Indies and the See also:United
his bust of Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Chambers. In 18o5 he was elected an See also:associate, and in 1811 a full member of the Royal Academy, his diploma work being a " See also:Ganymede " in high relief; in 1827 he was appointed to succeed See also:Flaxman as Royal Academy See also:professor of sculpture, and in 1837 he was knighted. A very large number of important public monuments were executed by him, including many portrait statues; but little can be said in praise of such works as the statue on the See also:duke of See also:York's See also:column (1833), the portrait of See also:Fox in Bloomsbury Square, or that of the duke of See also:Bedford in See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell Square. Much admiration was expressed at the time for Westmacott's monuments to See also:Collingwood and Sir See also:Ralph See also:Abercromby in St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral, and that of Mrs See also:Warren in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey; but subjects like these were far less congenial to him than sculpture of a more classical type, such as the pedimental figures representing the progress of See also:civilization over the See also:portico of the British Museum, completed in 1847, and his See also:colossal nude statue of See also:Achilles in See also:bronze, copied from the See also:original on See also:Monte See also:Cavallo in Rome, and reared in 1822 by the ladies of See also:England in See also:Hyde See also:Park as a compliment to the duke of See also:Wellington. He died on the 1st of See also:September 1856.
End of Article: WESTMACOTT, SIR RICHARD (1775-1856)
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