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Ernest George Gillick (19 November 1874 – 25 September 1951) was a British

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Life

Gillick was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, on 19 November 1874, the son of a tailor. The family moved to

Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...

, where Gillick was apprenticed as a designer in around 1891. He studied at the Nottingham School of Art and the

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. His first important commission was for the figures of J.M.W. Turner and

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for the facade of the

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in 1901. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and worked frequently as a medalist, as did his wife, Mary Tutin, whom he married in 1905. They had been students together at Nottingham. He served on the Sculpture Faculty of the British School at Rome and on the Council of the Imperial Arts League. He was a member of the

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from 1916 until his death, being elected Master in 1935. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1935, but never became a full Academician. He died in London on 25 September 1951 aged 76.

Works

Sculptures

* The

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in Glasgow, 1921–1924. * A sculptural group of ''Henry VII at Bosworth Field'' for the City Hall, Cardiff, (c.1919). * Figures for the reredos in

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Chapel, as part of the Winchester College War Memorial (1923). * An allegorical group for the

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building in Princes Street, London of 1931–1932, notable for figures of Lower Mathematics and Higher Mathematics, in which the latter figure holds a sculpted magic square. * Ex Tenebris Lux, 1937. Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand. * ''Monument to the Missing'',

Vis-En-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt The Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, Haucourt is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of World War I located between the Commune in France, communes of Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt (Pas-de-Calais), Haucourt in the ...

, France. * Statue of Sir Francis Powell in Mesnes Park,

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. * Bust of Thomas Hellyer Foord for the Foord Almshouses at Rochester.

Medals

*The

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(1904). *The Tibet Medal, reverse. (1905). *Royal Academy Schools Medal (c.1937).

References

External links

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''The Cenotaph'' by Ernest Gillick, Glasgow, Scotland
* ttp://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5687 Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections 1874 births 1951 deaths 20th-century English sculptors 20th-century English male artists Alumni of the Royal College of Art Artists from Bradford Associates of the Royal Academy British architectural sculptors English male sculptors Masters of the Art Worker's Guild {{UK-sculptor-stub