A pupil of his father, Thomas Thornycroft, and of the Royal Academy schools, he was still a student when he was called upon to assist his father in carrying out the important fountain in Park Lane, London.
Turning to the ideal, in works entirely modern in motive and treatment, HamoThornycroft produced " The Mower " (1884) and " A Sower " (1886); the " Stanley Memorial " in the old church at Holyhead partakes of the same character.
Mr Thornycroft's other memorials, such as the " Queen Victoria Memorial " (Karachi), the " War Memorial " (at Durban) and the " Armstrong Memorial " (at Newcastle), are well known, and his portrait statuary and medallions are numerous.
Hamo's early training was with his parents and he developed a passionate and precocious attachment to Classical sculpture.
Thornycroft was one of the youngest artists to be elected to the Royal Academy, in 1882, the same year the bronze cast of Teucer was purchased for the British nation under the auspices of the Chantrey Bequest.
Thornycroft continued to be a central member of the sculptural establishment and the Royal Academy into the twentieth century.
The son of London based sculptors Thomas and Mary Thornycroft, he trained with his father and assisted him on the Commerce group for the Albert Memorial (1863-75) and the Park Lane Fountain, London, before entering the Royal Academy of Art, London / Royal Academician ');" onmouseout='return nd();'> RA Schools in 1869.
An admirer of Gladstone, Thornycroft accepted Glasgow's commission with 'eager pleasure' after winning a competition against William Goscombe John, Edward Onslow Ford and George Frampton, and included a further two portraits of Gladstone on the bronze panels on the statue's pedestal.
Thornycroft produced another statue of Gladstone for London's Strand in 1905, which was part-funded by the Gladstone National Memorial Fund.
Mrs Agatha Hamo Thornycroft — An Inspiration for Thomas Hardy's Tess (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
According to the Bonham's catalogue, Agatha Thornycroft, the wife of the famous sculptor, Sir W. HamoThornycroft, and aunt of the poet Siegfried Sasoon, "was imagined by Hardy for the central character of his most famous novel.
However, Agatha Thornycroft, opposite whom Hardy sat at a dinner at the Gosses' on 2 July 1889, was the visual model for the Tess that Herkomer presented in his plates for the Graphic serialization of Tess).
Thornycroft look very similar, and both indeed resemble in face the Tess working at Dairyman Crick's in Herkomer's plate.
He was the son of Mary Thornycroft, the sculptress.
His yard built a steam powered lorry which led them into the vehicle manufacturing business, the Thornycroft named business lasting until the late 20th century.
Thornycroft worked on means of aiding hull lubrication by air which also led him to hydrofoil.
Starting along the Embankment, we immediately pass New Scotland Yard, by the important architect Richard Norman Shaw, and bearing a little panel of him designed by Lethaby and modelled by HamoThornycroft, son of Thomas, and who we shall meet again in a full size work in a moment.
With Thornycroft, though, we are most familiar with allegorical girls, and so we reproduce here one of the two nice panels on either side of the base of the monument.
Thomas Thornycroft was one of many who objected to this idea on the grounds that Albert believed that ‘our public monuments should be in art the expression of our present condition and civilisation’ so that the Needle would be a poor monument of the 19th Century.
Inscribed in the banner at the top is "Open Championship Horticultural Prize." Inscribed at the bottom is "Presented by Toogood and Sons, Ltd, Seedsmen to H.M. The King." Inscribed along the lower right border is "HamoThornycroft, 1921." Any information would be greatly appreciated.
This plaque bearing the figure of a woman holding a flowering shrub appears to be a British-made horticultural prize that was never awarded; the recipient's name would have been engraved in the blank area of the banner.
Its sculptor, Sir HamoThornycroft, is perhaps most famous for two other naturalistic works, a marble statue called "The Sower" in London's Kew Gardens and "The Mower," a life-size bronze, which is part of Tate Britain's permanent collection.
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As a result Romantic subject matter, Arthurian and Italianate, was taken over by sculptors and more original and experimental works began to be produced.
The result of these developments can be seen in the work of sculptors such as Alfred Gilbert, HamoThornycroft, Frederick Pomeroy, George Frampton, Harry Bates, Onslow Ford, William Reynold-Stevens and Gilbert Bayes.
The term "New Sculpture" was invented by the critic Edmund Gosse in a series of articles written in 1894 to explain how this stylistic revolution in English sculpture had occurred.
The second is Bernard Black's examination of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle's abandoned project for the Enfant à la Cage.
In another article, Moira Fulton explores the workshop practice of the little-known artist John Cheere, a sculptural entrepreneur from eighteenth-century London, while Miranda Mason contributes a detailed study of the workshop of HamoThornycroft.
In his article on the British Museum's statue of Gudea, governor of Lagash in the third millenium B.C., Jon Wood underscores his fundamental concern with the complex, but little-considered, question of "influence."
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Also inscribed "Charles George Gordon" and "Old Bond St. London May 6 1889." Bronze, brown patina.
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Hamo Thornycroft'''(William) HamoThornycroft''' (1850andndash;1925) was a British sculptor, responsible for several London landmarks.
He subsequently completed statues of several famous figures, including that of Charles George GordonGeneral Gordon which stands in Trafalgar Square, that of Oliver Cromwell outside the Houses of Parliament, and one of John Bright in Rochdale, EnglandRochdale.
==External links== *[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/Thornycroft.asp The Mower] in the [http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/ Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool] *[http://www.speel.demon.co.uk/artists2/thorny.htm Biography on Bob Speel's Site] *[http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/thornycroft/hamoov.html The Victorian Web, featuring links to images of works] Category:1850 birthsThornycroft, Hamo Category:1925 deathsThornycroft, Hamo Category:British sculptorsThornycroft, Hamo