William Priestly MacIntosh (1857 – 9 January 1930) was a

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in Sydney, Australia. His works often decorated significant public buildings in Sydney,

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and major provincial centres. Many of them are now heritage-listed.

Early life

MacIntosh was born near

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in Scotland in 1857 and died in Sydney in 1930. Before immigrating to New South Wales in 1880, he studied anatomy and sculpture in Edinburgh. By 1896 MacIntosh was "executing every kind of sculpture", working from a yard in Hereford Street, Forest Lodge. He was still actively working at the time of his death at his residence and studio in

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Works

His works include: * Lands Department building, Sydney (1890–1891) *

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, Sydney (1891) *

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, Sydney (1898–1899) * Land Administration Building, Brisbane (1903–1904) * Boer War Memorial,

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, Queensland (1904) *

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, Brisbane (1910) * Commonwealth Bank building, Sydney (1916) *

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, Brisbane (1920) * Old Parliament House, Canberra (1926)

References

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