Edwin Roscoe Mullins (22 August 1848- 9 January 1907) was a British sculptor known for a number of architectural sculptures and smaller works featuring neo-classical figures.

Biography

Mullins was born at

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in central London and attended Lough Grammar School and, from 1863 to 1865,

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in Wiltshire. He trained at the Lambeth School of Art before studying at the

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from 1967. In 1868 he won a gold medal in the National Art Competition for a model from the antique. Mullins was sponsered at the Royal Academy Schools by the sculptor

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and subsequently worked for him as an assistant before moving to Munich where he studied under Michael Wagmüller and also shared a studio with

Edward Onslow Ford Edward Onslow Ford (27 July 1852—23 December 1901) was an English sculptor. Much of Ford's early success came with portrait heads or busts. These were considered extremely refined, showing his subjects at their best and led to him receiving a ...

. In 1872 he won a silver medal at Munich and a bronze at Vienna for his work ''Sympathy''. Mullins returned to London around 1874. There, he created sculptures of neo-classical figures and portrait busts and statuettes and was, for a time, associated with the

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movement. He became a regular exhibitor at the

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, the New Gallery and the

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and in 1884 he was elected to the

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. He also exhibited with the Society of British Artists, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, at the

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in Liverpool and at

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. Mullins also received a number of public commissions and at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris was awarded a silver medal. In 1890 he published ''A Primer of Sculpture'' and was appointed as an instructor in modelling for architecture at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1897. He died in 1907 at

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Selected public works

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mullins, Edwin Roscoe 1848 births 1907 deaths 19th-century English sculptors 19th-century English male artists 20th-century English sculptors 20th-century English male artists Alumni of the City and Guilds of London Art School Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools British architectural sculptors English male sculptors People educated at Marlborough College People from Holborn Sculptors from London