Leonard Stanford Merrifield
English sculptor
Leonard Stanford Merrifield |
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Born | 1880
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Died | 25 April 1943
London, England |
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Nationality | British |
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Known for | Sculpture |
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Leonard Stanford Merrifield (1880 – 25 April 1943) was a British sculptor, notable for the public monuments he created in Cornwall and in Northern Ireland.
Biography
Merrifield was born at Wyck Rissington in Gloucestershire and initially trained as a stone carver before studying at the Cheltenham School of Art.[1] He moved to London to study at the City and Guilds of London Art School and then at the Royal Academy Schools.[1] Throughout his career Merrifield was based in London and created statuettes and portraits busts plus a number of larger public monuments, statues and war memorials.[2]
From 1906 to 1940 Merrifield was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London.[3] In 1919 at the Royal Academy Exhibition of War Memorials, Merrifield showed a design of a statute of a soldier with bayonet fixed standing in front of a Celtic cross.[4] Merrifield was subsequently commissioned to create a version of this design for the war memorial at Burnham in Buckinghamshire.[4] He received a gold medal from the Paris Salon in 1939 and exhibited with both the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal West of England Academy.[1] He was heavily involved with the Art Workers' Guild and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1926.[1] The National Museum Wales holds a marble bust of Robert Drane (1832-1914) and a bronze Pieta by Merrifield.[5]
Selected public works
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Alderman David Jones
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The Marble Hall, Cardiff City Hall
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1909
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Bust |
Marble |
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[6]
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Robert Drane
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National Museum Cardiff
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1910
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Bust |
Marble |
68.5cm
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[7]
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William Williams Pantycelyn
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The Marble Hall, Cardiff City Hall
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1916
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Statue on pedestal |
Marble |
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[8]
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War memorial
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Town Park, High Street, Burnham, Buckinghamshire
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1920
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Celtic cross with statue |
Stone and bronze |
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Grade II |
Q66478180
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[4][9][10]
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War memorial
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The Strand, Newlyn, Cornwall
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1920
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Celtic cross with relief panel |
Stone and bronze |
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Grade II |
Q66478950
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Monument designed by Sir Edward Prioleau Warren with relief panel by Merrifield.[11][12]
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War memorial
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Redburn Square, Holywood, County Down
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1922
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Statue on pedestal |
Stone |
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[13]
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Hedd Wyn
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Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd
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1923
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Statue on stepped pedestal with tablet |
Bronze, stone and stone |
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Grade II |
Q29505236
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[14][15][16]
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Staffordshire County war memorial
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Victoria Road, Stafford
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1923
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Statue group on cenotaph with panels |
Bronze and stone |
12m high
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Grade II |
Q26585719
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Designed by William Robert Colton, completed by Merrifield[17][18]
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War memorial
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Town Square, Comber, County Down
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1923
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Statue on pedestal |
Bronze and granite |
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[3][19]
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Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry war memorial
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Outside of Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, Bodmin, Cornwall
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Sculpture 1922, erected 1924
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Statue on pedestal and steps |
Bronze and granite |
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Grade II* |
Q2658734
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[20][2]
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Memorial to Charles Frohman
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The Causeway, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
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1924
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Statue with drinking fountain |
Stone |
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Grade II |
Q26418122
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Frohman died in the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania.[21][22]
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Richard Trevithick
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Camborne, Cornwall
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1928
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Statue on pedestal with panels |
Gilded bronze and granite |
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Grade II |
Q26647292
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[14][23]
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War memorial
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Church Place, Lurgan, County Armagh
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1928
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Statue on hexagonal dome structure |
Bronze and stone |
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[3][24]
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War memorial
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Pontmorlais Circus, Merthyr Tydfil
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1931
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Three statues and surround |
Bronze and Portland stone |
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Grade II |
Q29489908
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[14][25][26]
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Edward Carson
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Stormont Parliament Buildings, Belfast
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1933
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Statue on pedestal |
Bronze and stone |
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[3][27]
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Richard Trevithick
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Gower Street, London
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1933
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Relief plaque |
Bronze |
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Q50078783
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[14]
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King David and Miriam
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York Minster, York
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Two statues in niches |
Stone |
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[6]
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Other works
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