#british sculptor

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Holly Hendry (British, b. 1990, lives and works in London), Not Working, 2021. Plaster, steel and Jesmonite, 25 4/5 × 16 7/10 × 9 1/10 in. | 65.5 × 42.5 × 23 cm. (Source: Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, New York)

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The Artist's Daughter, c. 1870

By James Sherwood Westmacott

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Liz Moore (1944-1976)

Elizabeth "Liz" Moore (1944-1976) was a British sculptor, known for working in the props for various films. Some of Moore's best-known credits include 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Star Wars (1977) via W #PalianSHOW

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Surreal Sculptures Look Like Life-Size Animals Covered Completely in Ornate Carpets

British sculptor Debbie Lawson brings her incredible work to New York with a solo exhibition at Sargent's Daughters. Hidden Territories features Lawson's signature sculptures of wildlife cloaked in carpets, including work created for a recent site-specific installation at Rockefeller Center. Merging the natural world with an item from domestic spaces, Lawson's surreal sculptures are hypnotic.

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Saint George and the Rescued Maiden by Henry Charles Fehr

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Anne Seymour Damer (née Conway)

Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723–1792)

Date: 1773

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Sitter: Damer [née Conway], Anne Seymour (1749–1828), sculptor and author.

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Andy Goldsworthy - Ice star - (1987)

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Helen Chadwick

Sculptor, installation artist, and photographer Helen Chadwick was born in London in 1953. Chadwick became known for using a variety of materials in unexpected ways, and her own body was often the subject of her work. With her transgressive and radical art that dealt with taboo subjects, Chadwick secured a place for herself as a leader of the postwar British avant-garde. In 1987, she became one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner Prize. Chadwick's work was widely exhibited, and she taught at multiple art schools. including the Royal College of Art.

Helen Chadwick died of a heart attack in 1996 at the age of 42.

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Gary Hume (British, b. 1962, lives and works in London and Accord, New York), Ink Snowman, 2003. Gloss enamel and cast resin, 39 x 27 x 27 in. | 99.1 x 68.6 x 68.6 cm. (Source: Matthew Marks Gallery, New York)

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#OTD in 1915 – The Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat off the Old Head of Kinsale, Co Cork with the loss of more than 1,100 lives.

The passenger liner Lusitania is torpedoed and sunk ten miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Co Cork by German U-boat U-20 under the command of Captain Walter Schweiger, resulting in the death of 1,198 of the ship’s passengers and crew. Only 761 people survived what was perceived by Britain as a flagrant breach of international law. The death of 124 US citizens turned much US opinion against…

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Barbara Hepworth, 1964.

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The Nutmeg Princess in Grenada, once again by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, is based on a story by renowned Grenadian author Richardo Keens- Douglas. It depicts the fairy tale princess rising from a large nutmeg pod, reaching towards the heavens with a handful of the spice that Grenada is known for all over the world

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Untitled (Black Pigment, Oil & Charcol on paper, 1984-1989)

These black pigment, oil and charcoal drawings made between 1985 and 1988 and generally on a smaller scale, were executed on a heavy density etching paper.

Antony Gormley

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Antonio Canova (1757–1821)

Artist: Studio of Sir Thomas Lawrence (British, 1769–1830)

Date: c. 1816–1820

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterized as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter.

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British teacher keeps scamming the art students