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  Hamo Thornycroft
Hamo Thornycroft belonged to a family of sculptors.
His brother, John Isaac Thornycroft[?], became a successful naval engineer, and their sister, Theresa, was the mother of the poet Siegfried Sassoon.
Hamo's first major success was in 1876, with a statue in the classical style: Warrior Beasino.
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 William Hamo Thornycroft - LoveToKnow 1911
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, Hamo Thornycroft 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.
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 Hamo Thornycroft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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 Sir William Hamo Thornycroft (1850-1925), sculptor, a biography
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.
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 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. Hamo Thornycroft, 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.
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 John Isaac Thornycroft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Isaac_Thornycroft   (334 words)

  
 Bob Speel's website - Sculpture on the Victoria Embankment
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 Hamo Thornycroft, 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.
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 FIND! - Horticultural Plaque
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 "Hamo Thornycroft, 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 Hamo Thornycroft, 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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 Sir Hamo Thornycroft RA (1850-1925)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Hamo Thornycroft was born in London but spent his youth in Cheshire.
Overall, Thornycroft's most outstanding works are male rather than female, above all the 'heroic peasants' including the
In none of his female figures has he aimed for either conventional beauty, or a classical treatment of the face.
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 Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft, R. A. (1850-1825)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft, R. Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft, R. Biography
Born in London, son of sculptors Thomas and Mary Thornycroft.
A loan exhibition of sculpture and medals sponsored by The Victorian Society.
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 THORNYCROFT, WILLIAM H... - Online Information article about THORNYCROFT, WILLIAM H...
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Thomas Thornycroft, and of the Royal See also:
Mr Thornycroft's other memorials, such as the " See also:
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 John and Katharine Maltwood Collection: Cultural Context Part 5 - the "New Sculpture" Movement in England
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, Hamo Thornycroft, 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.
www.maltwood.uvic.ca /k_maltwood/history/newsculpture.html   (982 words)

  
 HAMO THORNYCROFT Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography
HAMO THORNYCROFT Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography
More details, updated results and all prices at art auction for HAMO THORNYCROFT, biography, classifieds and marketplace
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 Sir Hamo Thornycroft Online
Sir Hamo Thornycroft in the Art Renewal Center
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sir Hamo Thornycroft
All images and text on this Sir Hamo Thornycroft page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Sir Hamo Thornycroft (1850 - 1925) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Sir Hamo Thornycroft (1675 - 1734) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Sir William Hamo Thornycroft (1850-1925), Sculptor; son of Mary Thornycroft
Sir W. Hamo Thornycroft, R. NPG 2156; Thomas Hardy
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 The Sculpture Journal (Getty Bookstore)
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 Hamo Thornycroft.
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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 Live Auctioneers - 127: SIR WILLIAM HAMO THORNYCROFT, BRITISH 18   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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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 Marine Photography - Specialists in photographing sailing and marine events. (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Hamo Thornycroft Marine Photography - Specialists in photographing sailing and marine events.
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 Hamo Thornycroft sculptors and architects information
Hamo Thornycroft'''(William) Hamo Thornycroft''' (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
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