Sculptor. Born Glasgow. Good friend and associate of Rodin. Also by Tweed is the Wellington Monument in St. Paul’s Cathedral. Died in a nursing home at 18 Langham Street.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Tweed
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John Tweed SW10
The plaque gives his birth year as 1863, when, according to the Oxford Dictio...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
John Tweed
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Kitchener statue
{On the front of the plinth:} Kitchener, 1850 - 1916 {On the front of the lo...
Rifle Brigade
There are 3 statues on this memorial: to the left - a rifleman of 1806; to th...
Sir George White
{On both sides of the plinth:} Field-Marshal Sir George Stuart White, V.C., ...
Other Subjects
Sir Hamo Thornycroft
Sculptor. Born William Hamo Thornycroft (but the William is normally dropped) at 39 Stanhope Street, Regent's Park. Son of sculptors Thomas and Mary Thornycroft. Studied at the Royal Academy Sch...
William Behnes
Born London but brought up in Dublin. Very successful and prolific sculptor but he was a difficult man with "evil habits" (which seem to have been mainly liquid) and never achieved membership of t...
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins
Artist, sculptor. Born Devonshire Street. Designer of the prehistoric 'monsters' original made for and exhibited at the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park but now in Crystal Palace Park. They were moved...
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