John Doubleday

John Doubleday

John Doubleday (born 1947) is a British painter and sculptor famous for his public sculptures and statues.

Doubleday was born in 1947 in Langford, near Maldon and studied sculpture at Goldsmiths College. He has enjoyed a successful career as a public sculptor since his first one-man show at the Waterhouse and Dodd Gallery, London in 1968.

His commissioned portraits include:
*HRH Prince Philip
*Golda Meir
*Charlie Chaplin (at Leicester Square, London)
*Dylan Thomas
*The Beatles (in Liverpool)
*Sir Laurence Olivier
*Sherlock Holmes (at Marylebone Road / Baker Street, London and at Meiringen, Switzerland)
*Gerald Durrell (at the Jersey Zoo, Jersey)
*Nelson Mandela (in South Africa)


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