John Doubleday
John Doubleday (born 9 October 1947)[1] is a British painter and sculptor famous for his public sculptures and statues. He is a figurative sculptor, who works mostly in bronze. He was influenced by Charles Despiau, while spending time at the Musée Bourdelle, Paris.[2]
Doubleday was born in 1947 in Langford, near Maldon, Essex and studied at Stowe and sculpture at Goldsmiths College.[3] He has enjoyed a successful career as a public sculptor since his first one-man show at the , London in 1968.[3]
He created two- and three-dimensional art and when he created the statue of Nelson he agreed that the sum would be given to charity.[3]
His commissioned portraits include:
- Prince Philip
- Golda Meir
- Charlie Chaplin (at Leicester Square, London and in Vevey, Switzerland)
- Dylan Thomas
- Dorothy L Sayers (1995 Witham)[3]
- Horatio Nelson (in Gibraltar)[3]
- The Beatles (in Liverpool)
- Sir Laurence Olivier
- Sherlock Holmes (at Marylebone Road / Baker Street, London and at Meiringen, Switzerland)
- Gerald Durrell (at the Durrell Wildlife Park, Jersey)
- Nelson Mandela (in South Africa)
- Alex Smale
- Reid Brothers (at Fishers Island, NY)
References[]
- ^ "Birthdays". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media. 9 Oct 2014. p. 41.
- ^ Windsor, Alan (2002). British sculptors of the twentieth century. Burlington, VT, Ashgate.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Nelson.
- "John Doubleday and Nelson" (PDF). Friends of Gibraltar Heritage Society (73): 8–9. August 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 23, 2006. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
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Categories:
- 20th-century British sculptors
- Modern sculptors
- 21st-century British sculptors
- 1947 births
- Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
- British sculptors
- British male sculptors
- Living people
- People from Maldon, Essex