Lincoln Seligman (born 1950) is a British artist, best known for his large-scale sculptures and murals displayed at modern landmark buildings worldwide. Lincoln was born the eldest son of

Madron Seligman Richard Madron Seligman (10 November 1918 – 9 July 2002) was a British Conservative Party politician. He spent most of his career in industry, where he came to understand and support the European Economic Community and was latterly a member of ...

, (a hereditary

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and a pro-European

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for

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from 1979 to 1984) and his wife, Nancy-Joan. He was educated at

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

, winning an exhibition to

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the f ...

to study jurisprudence. He was called to the Bar in 1973 and became a professional painter and sculptor in 1980. His godfather was Edward Heath, a close friend of his father. Prominent works include ''Intervention,'' above the entrance of the Treatment Centre of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, and many large scale sculptures displayed at Hong Kong Harbor and on the Kowloon peninsula. Seligman is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.members
'rbs.org.uk'' His major works include sculpture commissions for Schroders, The Prudential, BAA, Battersea Reach, Chelsea Harbour,Broadgate, Swiss Bank. Glaxo Smith Kline Outside UK: HQ of Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong. MTR Kowloon. SWIRES, Sing Pao Building. East Hotel, Westin Taipei, Royal Caribbean, Phoenix City Beijing for Chinese government. One man show of paintings at Royal Academy London 2007, sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank. Paintings in collections of Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Roxburghe, Ian Paisley, Royal Palace Riyadh, Chanel, Tiffany, Laurent Perrier, Paul Simon, Flemings, Standard Chartered Bank. Designed " Bright Young Things " ballet for New English Ballet Theatre with Dutch choreographer Ernst Meisner, premiere July 2012 Peacock Theatre Sadlers Wells London. Designs new ballet, 'Kreutzer Sonata", for NEBT gala at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden October 2013. He was one of the first on the scene at the

Dibbles Bridge coach crash On 27 May 1975, a coach carrying elderly passengers crashed at the bottom of a steep hill at Dibble's Bridge, near Hebden in North Yorkshire, England. Thirty-three people on board were killed, including the driver, and thirteen others injure ...

on 27 May 1975, when a coach crashed into the garden of the house where he was staying near Grassington in North Yorkshire.

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External links

Lincoln Seligman Exhibition
''seeingisbelieving.org.uk'' accessed 27 May 2019

''quantumart.co.uk'' accessed 27 May 2019

(Archived copy accessed 27 May 2019)
Own web page
''lincolnseligman.com'' accessed 27 May 2019

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English sculptors English male sculptors English muralists 1950 births Living people English people of German-Jewish descent People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford English barristers {{UK-sculptor-stub