Arthur George Walker RA (20 October 1861 – 13 September 1939) was an English sculptor and painter. Among his best-known works are several war memorials and the statue of Florence Nightingale in Waterloo Place, London.
Arthur George Walker was born 20 October 1861 to Robert Walker and his wife in Hackney, London. Robert Walker was a ship owner and surveyor.[1] Until 1911, Walker lived with his Aunt Isabella and two siblings, Emily and Harold. He studied at the Royal Academy from about 1883 to 1887 and during this time won various prizes.[1] He died aged 77 on 13 September 1939 in England.[1]
"IN GRATEFUL / AND UNDYING MEMORY / OF THE VALIANT MEN / OF IRON BRIDGE / WHO LAID DOWN / THEIR LIVES / IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 – 1919 / WE THANK OUR GOD UPON / EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU"
" THE CHURCH CLOCK WAS / ILLUMINATED AS A MEMORIAL / TO THE FOLLOWING MEN OF / IRONBRIDGE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES DURING THE 1939–1945 WAR. / (10 names)"
"VULNERATUS NON VICTUS / THIS MONUMENT / WAS ERECTED BY SUFFOLK PEOPLE AS A MEMORIAL / TO SUFFOLK SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE / SOUTH AFRICAN WAR / 1899–1902"
"6TH (BANFFSHIRE & DONSIDE) BATTALION OF THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS"
"Remember 1914–1918 / (Names) / Blessed are the Peacemakers"
"TO THE GLORY OF / GOD / AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF LIMEHOUSE WHO FELL IN / THE GREAT WAR 1914–1918 / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS / OF ANY NAMES NOT ENGRAVED IN PERISHABLE STONE / GOD HOLDS ETERNAL RECORD IN HIS HEART ALONE"
Walker was selected after the Dartford War Memorial Committee saw his memorial in Sevenoaks which uses the same "British Tommy" figure. It is written that the sculptor sketched his design for the Tommy from life; the model was a soldier, recently returned from Flanders with whom the artist corresponded on his return to the trenches. According to Walker the man survived to see photographs of the finished statue. The founders A.B.Burton carried out the bronze casting.[16]
"TO KEEP IN MIND THOSE FROM THIS PLACE / WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914–1918"
"TO THE / GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF THE MEN OF / THIS TOWN WHO / GAVE THEIR LIVES / AND TO HONOUR / ALL WHO SERVED / OR SUFFERED IN / THE CAUSE OF GOD / KING AND COUNTRY / THEIR DEEDS LIVE AFTER THEM / FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH"
Ward-Jackson, Philip (2011). Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1. Public Sculpture of Britain. Vol. 14. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. pp. 382–5.
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