Terms and conditions of use
J. Henning Thompson
1934
- Medium
- bronze
- Measurements
- 51.4 × 18.2 × 22.8 cm (overall)
- Inscription
- cast in base of neck l.r.: Paul R Montford Sc. 1934
- Accession Number
- 3612-D3
- Department
- Australian Sculpture
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the subscribers, 1936 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Paul Montford arrived in Melbourne in 1923 at the age of fifty-five, having already established a considerable reputation as a sculptor in Britain. During the late 1880s he had been an outstanding student at the Royal Academy of Art in London, winning several scholarships and, in 1891, the Academy’s gold medal.
Although he died in Melbourne only fifteen years after his arrival, during this period Montford received numerous public commissions and produced almost seventy works. Among the most notable are his exterior sculptural groups for Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance and the memorial to Adam Lindsay Gordon in Spring Street, Melbourne.
