- John Edward Carew
John Edward Carew (c.
1785 -1 December 1868 ) was a notable Irishsculptor during the 19th century.Thought to be the son of a local stonecutter, Carew was born in
Tramore , and studied art inDublin . Around 1809, he came toLondon to work for SirRichard Westmacott .He worked exclusively for the 3rd Earl of Egremont at
Petworth House in the 1820s and 1830s (also producing a monument to the Earl's Percy ancestors in the baptistery of St Mary's,Petworth ), and made some sculpture for the royal family, including two chimney pieces forBuckingham Palace . His most prominent work is the "Death of Nelson" - one of the fourbronze panels on the base ofNelson's Column inTrafalgar Square . He also produced theDick Whittington sculpture (c.1844) on theThreadneedle Street side of the Royal Exchange.Other portrait statues by Carew include:
*William Huskisson inChichester [ [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/chichester.htm Chichester Cathedral ] ]
*Henry Grattan in St Stephen’s Hall,Houses of Parliament
*Edmund Kean for theDrury Lane Theatre.Church work includes:
*memorial to Edward Woods,Chichester Cathedral [ [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/chichester.htm Chichester Cathedral ] ]
*memorial to Michael Nugent inKensal Green Cemetery
*monument with figures to Sir Thomas Caryll, Shipley Church,Sussex (1831) ['Shipley: Church', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2: Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) including Horsham (1986), pp. 123-25. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18343. Date accessed: 28 October 2006]
*"Baptism of Christ" for church of St John the Baptist,Brighton (1835) [ [http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.asp?index=4009&main_query=&theme=&period=&county=&district=&place_name=&imageUID=72961&=&JS=True ViewFinder - Image Details ] ]
*reredos in the Chapel of the Assumption, Warwick St, London ['Golden Square Area: Warwick Street', Survey of London: volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2 (1963), pp. 167-73. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41468. Date accessed: 13 November 2006.]
*four works - statue of St. John the Baptist, the Immaculate Conception, St Francis of Assisi and St. Patrick - inBasilica of St. John the Baptist , St. John's, Newfoundland [ [http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/rhs/rs_listing/102.html St. John's: Basilica of John the Baptist ] ]From about 1848, Carew's eyesight began to fail and he no longer exhibited his work. Carew was buried in
Kensal Green Cemetery .References
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