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Leonard Stanford Merrifield

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

Other works

References

  1. ^ a b c d University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Leonard Stanford Merrifield FRBS". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b Historic England. "Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry War Memorial (1298217)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Leonard Stanford Merrifield". Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720–1940. 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Alan Borg (1991). War memorials: From Antiquity to the Present. Leo Cooper. ISBN 085052363X.
  5. ^ "Collections OnLine: Merrifield, Leonard Stanford". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Leonard Stanford Merrifield". speel. 22 November 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  7. ^ "Art Collection Online: Robert Drane (1832-1914)". Amgueddfa Cymru. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  8. ^ Huws, Richard E. (1983). "Wales' Top Ten". 100 Welsh Heroes. Archived from the original on 9 September 2005. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  9. ^ "War Memorials Register: Burnham". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  10. ^ Historic England. "Burnham War Memorial (1440042)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  11. ^ "War Memorials Register: Newlyn". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  12. ^ Historic England. "Newlyn war memorial (1449444)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  13. ^ "War Memorials Register: Holywood". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  14. ^ a b c d Jo Darke (1991). The Monument Guide to England and Wales. Macdonald Illustrated. ISBN 0-356-17609-6.
  15. ^ Cadw. "Statue of Hedd Wyn, Trawsfyndd (82543)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  16. ^ "War Memorials Register: Hedd Wyn – Private E H Evans". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  17. ^ "War Memorials Register: Staffordshire County Memorial Figure". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  18. ^ Historic England. "Staffordshire County war memorial with flanking walls and gates (1298201)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  19. ^ "War Memorials Register: Comber and District". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  20. ^ "War Memorials Register: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry – WW1 and WW2". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  21. ^ "War Memorials Register: C Frohman". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  22. ^ Historic England. "Statue in memory of Charles Frohman (1125093)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  23. ^ Historic England. "Trevithick memorial statue on pavement in front of library (1365624)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  24. ^ "War Memorials Register: Lurgan and District". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  25. ^ Cadw. "Merthyr Tydfill war memorial (11455)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  26. ^ "War Memorials Register: Merthyr Tydfil". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  27. ^ "Stormont Castle – points of interest". nidirect government services. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

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