(1803 - 1883)
London-based sculptor George Abbott studied at the Royal Academy Schools on the recommendation of die-engraver Benjamin Wyon. Between 1829 and 1867 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of Artists, Suffolk Street. His works include sculptures of historical, genre and literary subjects, as well as portrait busts. He spent much of his career living in the Soho and Bloomsbury areas of London but moved to Pimlico by 1867. His sculpted depiction of ‘Alexander the Great Crossing the Granicus’ was exhibited at the Great of Exhibition of 1851 and his portrait busts of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel were reproduced in large numbers. Abbott died just before his 80th birthday, leaving a wife, Eliza Frances.
