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Goscombe John
William Goscombe John by George Roilos
Born(1860-02-21)21 February 1860
Cardiff, Wales
Died15 December 1952(1952-12-15) (aged 92)
London, England
Education
Known forSculpture
MovementNew Sculpture

Sir William Goscombe John RA (21 February 1860 – 15 December 1952) was a prolific Welsh sculptor known for his many public memorials.

Biography

He was born in the Canton area of Cardiff,[1] and as a youth assisted his father, Thomas John, a wood carver, in the restoration of Cardiff Castle. He initially studied in his home town, attending the Cardiff School of Art.[2] He went to London in 1882 and studied at the South London School of Technical Art under Jules Dalou and William Silver Frith and afterward at the Royal Academy schools, where he won the gold medal and a travelling scholarship in 1887.[3] In 1890–91 he studied in Paris with Auguste Rodin.[3] He married the Swiss-born Marthe Weiss. Their daughter Muriel married Frederick Luke Val Fildes, the son of the artist Sir Luke Fildes.[4]

As a young man he adopted the first name Goscombe, taken from the name of a village in Gloucestershire near his mother's home.[5]

Goscombe John returned to Paris in 1892 to show a statuette, Morpheus at the Paris Salon.[6] John embraced the vigous naturalistic style of the New Sculpture movement and cemented his reputation with works such as John the Baptist for Lord Bute and with a number of life-sized figures including The Elf and Boy at Play.[6] By the early 1890s John had established himself as a sculptor of some note and began to receive significant public commissions.[6] Although based in London, John won a number of large commissions in his native Wales. These included his 1916 marble St David Blessing the People and ten other figures for Cardiff City Hall.[6]

Goscombe John was commissioned to design many public monuments and statues of public figures such as the shipping magnate and philanthropist John Cory; John's statue of the latter was erected in front of Cardiff City Hall. In 1921 he designed the memorial at Port Sunlight to the employees of Lever Brothers Ltd who had died in the First World War; he also sculpted portraits of Lord and Lady Lever. He received a gold medal in Paris in 1901, was made a Royal Academician in 1909, was knighted in 1911, and became corresponding member of the French Institute.[3] He settled in Greville Road, Kilburn, London (in a house that had previously belonged to Seymour Lucas), and is buried in Hampstead Cemetery.[7] The memorial statue of his wife, which he designed when she died in 1923, was stolen from the cemetery in 2001 but recovered after a few months; it was put into secure storage, but was again stolen in early 2007.

Public memorials

1890–1899

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Daniel Owen Mold, Flintshire c.1896 Statue on pedestal Bronze & stone Grade II Q29480968 [8][9]
The Elf Kibble Palace, Botanic Gardens, Glasgow 1899 Statue on plinth Marble 2.25m high [10]


1900–1909

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
Tomb of Dean Vaughan North choir-aisle of Llandaff Cathedral 1900 Tomb with sculpture Marble [11]

More images 		Arthur Sullivan Victoria Embankment Gardens, London 1902 Bust and figure on pedestal Bronze & granite Grade II Q27081637 [12]
Wigan and District Boer War memorial Mesnes Park, Wigan 1903 Sculpture on plinth Stone with bronze additions Removed after repeated vandalism.[13]
James Reid (1823–1894) Springburn Park, Glasgow 1903 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category B Q17811051 [14]

More images 		Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein Thames Street, Windsor, Berkshire 1903 Statue and surround Bronze and Portland stone Grade II Q26411185 [15]
Coldstream Guards Vestibule of south nave, St Paul's Cathedral, London 1904 Relief sculptures Gilt, bronze & stone 1.5m x 0.9m [16]

More images 		RAMC Memorial, Aldershot Gun Hill, Aldershot 1905 Sculpture group, obelisk and wall with plaques Bronze & granite Grade II Q26672950 Architect, Robert Weir Schultz[17][18]

More images 		Alfred W. Hughes Memorial Corris, Gwynedd 1905 Celtic cross on pedestal with a bronze plaque Granite Grade II Q2949920 [19][20]

More images 		King's Liverpool Regiment memorial St John's Gardens, Liverpool 1905 Statues with base & wall Bronze & stone Grade II Q26333154 AB Burton (foundary); William Kirkpatrick Ltd (builders)[21][22]
Journalists of the South African War memorial Crypt of St. Faith, St Paul's Cathedral, London 1905 Plaque Marble & bronze [23]

More images 		John Cory Gorsedd Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff 1906 Statue on pedestal Bronze & stone Grade II Q29491668 [24]

More images 		Judge Gwilym Williams of Miskin (1839–1906) Opposite Crown Court, Cathays Park, Cardiff 1906 Statue on plinth Bronze & stone Grade II Q29491700 [25][26]

More images 		Memorial to 2nd Battn Royal Sussex Regiment, 1882 to 1902 Grand Parade, Eastbourne 1906 Statue on pedestal Bronze statue, stone pedestal Grade II* Q17555428 AB Burton (foundary)[27][28]
John Viriamu Jones Entrance hall of the Main Building of Cardiff University, in Cathays Park 1906 Statue on pedestal Marble

More images 		William Edward Hartpole Lecky Trinity College, Dublin 1906 Statue on pedestal Bronze and stone Q82094233

More images 		Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar Gorsedd Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff 1909 Equestrian statue on pedestal with reliefs Bronze & stone Grade II Q29491649 [29]


1910–1919

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
The Boy Scout National Museum Cardiff 1910 Statuette Bronze Portrait of Basil Webb, son of Henry Webb, and who served as a 2nd lieutenant with the Welsh Guards during the First World War and was killed in December 1917.[30]

More images 		Charles Rolls Agincourt Square, Monmouth 1911 Statue on pedestal Bronze & granite Grade II* Q7604480 [31]

More images 		Memorial to the Engine Room Heroes of the Titanic Pier Head, Liverpool 1916 Obelisk with statues Bronze & stone Grade II* Q3305518 [32][33]

More images 		Edward VII Pier Head, Liverpool 1916 Equestrian statue on pedestal Bronze Grade II Q26320984 [34][3]
Lieutenant Colonel A. Carteret-Thynne DSO Parish Church of St. James the Great, Kilkhampton, Cornwall 1917 Tablet with figure & plaque Marble & bronze Carteret-Thynne was killed in action in 1917, having also served in the South African War.[35]

More images 		Equestrian statue of the Viscount Wolseley Horse Guards Parade, London 1917 Equestrian statue on pedestal Bronze & Portland stone Grade II Q18159880 [3][36]

More images 		Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart Cathays Park, Cardiff 1917 Statue on plinth Bronze & stone Grade II Q29491669 [37]
Capt H B Knott and Major J L Knott DSO St Andrew's Church, Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland 1918 Tablet with relief figures Marble 1.2m by 1.5m [38]


1920–1929

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Lampeter War Memorial Bryn Square, Lampeter 1921 Statue on pedestal and raised terrace Bronze statue, granite pedestal 4.5m high Grade II Q29489055 Terrace & wall designed by Llewllyn Bankes-Price[39][40]

More images 		Port Sunlight War Memorial Port Sunlight Merseyside 1921 Celtic Cross on an octagonal podium with eleven sculptured figures and twelve relief panels. Bronze and granite 11.5m high Grade I Q15979246 AB Burton (foundary); William Kirkpatrick Ltd (builders)[41][42][43]

More images 		David Lloyd George Castle Square, Caernarfon 1921 Statue on plinth Bronze & stone Grade II Q29483625 AB Burton (foundary); Base by J Fletcher of Caernarfon.[44]
Statue of Sir John Tomlinson Brunner Grounds of Brunner-Mond works, Winnington, Cheshire 1922 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II Q15979536 [45][46]

More images 		Thomas Charles Edwards Old College, Aberystwyth 1922 Statue on pedestal Bronze & granite Grade II Q29488944 AB Burton (foundary)[47][48]
Llanelli war memorial People's Park, Llanelli 1923 Relief panel and cenotaph Bronze sculpture & granite cenotaph Grade II Q29490305 [49][50]

More images 		The Northumberland Fusiliers Memorial "The Response" Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne 1923 Bronze relief figures on a granite base with three granite figures on the reverse Bronze and granite Grade I Q17552582 AB Burton (foundary); William Kirkpatrick Ltd (builders)[51][52]
Penarth war memorial Alexandra Gardens, Penarth 1924 Obelisk-mounted sculpture on stepped plinth Bronze and granite Grade II Q29491428 [53][54]

More images 		Royal Welch Fusiliers memorial Junction of Bodhfryd Rd. & Chester Rd., Wrexham 1924 Twin sculptures on pedestal Bronze and stone [55]
Carmarthen County war memorial Priory Street, Carmarthen 1924 Statue on pedestal and plinth Bronze and Portland stone 4.5m high [56]

More images 		Llandaff Cathedral School war memorial Cathedral Green, Llandaff, Cardiff 1924 3 Sculptures on pedestals Bronze and stone Grade II Q29491677 [57][58]

More images 		James Rice Buckley Cathedral Green, Llandaff 1927 Statue on pedestal Bronze & granite Grade II Q29491672 [59]
Basil Webb Crypt of Lady Chapel, Hereford Cathedral Reredos with figures of 3 saints Basil Webb was the son of Henry Webb who funded the memorial.[60]


1930–1939

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Evan James & James James Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd 1930 2 statues on plinths Bronze Grade II* Q17743403 [61][62][63]
Harry Seymour Berry, Baron Buckland of Bwlch Outside Central Library, Merthyr Tydfil 1931 Statue on pedestal Bronze and stone Grade II [64]

More images 		George V Entrance to Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool 1939 Statue Bronze

More images 		Queen Mary Entrance to Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool 1939 Statue Bronze


Other works

John's output also included:

Saint John the Baptist

Goscombe John's output was prolific and also includes the statue of King Edward VII at Cape Town and the equestrian statue of the Earl of Minto at Calcutta. Goscombe John also executed the monument to the Marquis of Salisbury, in Westminster Abbey[3] and Hatfield Church.


References

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