biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1818–75)
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| biography:
| Painter, sculptor, and designer, born in Blandford, Dorset, S England, UK. He studied in Florence, and with the Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen (1770–1844), and taught architectural design at Somerset House, London (1845–7). During the next 10 years he decorated and designed household furniture, fireplaces, and porcelain. From 1856 he worked on the Wellington monument in St Paul's Cathedral (completed after his death by John Tweed) and the mosaics under the dome of St Paul's. He also designed the lions at the British Museum. |
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