Matthew Noble

Noble's statue of Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet (1871), Whitehall Gardens, London

Noble's gravestone, Brompton Cemetery, London

Matthew Noble (1818 – 23 June 1876) was a British sculptor.

Life

Noble was born in Hackness, near Scarborough, as the son of a stonemason, and served his apprenticeship under his father. He left Yorkshire for London when quite young, there he studied under John Francis (the father of Mary Thornycroft, the sculptress). Exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy from 1845 until his death, Noble became recognised after winning the competition to construct the Wellington Monument in Manchester in 1856.

Although prolific Noble was never in perfect health. He died at the age of 56 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London. His uncompleted works were finished by his assistant, J. Edwards.

Works

• figures of Robert Peel, 1851, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, 1874, in Parliament Square, London
• figure of Robert Peel, 1853, in the Concert Hall of St George's Hall, Liverpool^[1]
• the Wellington Monument in Manchester, with Wellington and allegorical bronzes of War, Peace, Wisdom and Victory, 1856
• marble figure of Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons in St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1860
• the figure of Albert in his memorial at Albert Square, Manchester, 1862-1867
• John Franklin in Waterloo Place, London, 1866
• figure of Peter Fairbairn, Mayor of Leeds, in Leeds, 1868
• Sir James Ramsden, Barrow-in-Furness, 1872
• bust of Oliver Cromwell at the Manchester Town Hall
• James McGrigor in the small garden to the Royal Army Medical College, London
• 3 statues at the back of the Royal Academy, London
• Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet in Whitehall Gardens, London, 1871
• two recumbent effigies at York Minster, London

Notes

1. ^ Sharples, Joseph; Pollard, Richard. Liverpool. In Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006). The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 296. ISBN 0 300 10910 5. 

Gallery

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  Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham in Lister Park, Bradford

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  Robert Peel, Parliament Square, London

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  Earl of Derby, Parliament Square

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  Albert Memorial, Albert Square, Manchester

Sources

• online biography

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Name	Noble, Matthew
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Date of birth	1818
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Date of death	23 June 1876
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