Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) reformer of nursing and of the Army Medical Services
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About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street
This work by the sculptor, painter, book illuminator and mosaic designer Arthur George Walker, is a miniature version of Walker’s statue of Florence Nightingale, located in Waterloo Place, London. The larger sculpture, commissioned in 1910 as a memorial to those killed in the Crimean War, was erected in 1915.
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About the artist
Arthur George Walker was born in Hackney. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, eventually being appointed a Royal Academician towards the end of his life, in 1936. Walker produced figurative and monumental sculpture, and was also a painter, book illuminator and mosaic designer. Other public monuments by him include a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, located at the entrance to Victoria Park Gardens in Westminster, an equestrian statue of John Wesley in Bristol and a statue of Sir Philip Sidney in Shrewsbury.
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Explore
- Places
- Materials & Techniques
- bronze
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Details
- Title
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) reformer of nursing and of the Army Medical Services
- Date
- Medium
- Bronze statuette
- Dimensions
- height: 46.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Christopher Wood Gallery, October 1987
- Inscription
- monogram on base
- GAC number
- 16632