Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

The Walker Art Gallery was designed by local architects Cornelius Sherlock and H. H. Vale, and was opened on 6 September 1877 by Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby.
On the roof is a statue Spirit of Liverpool; the entrance is flanked by marble statues of Michelangelo and Raphael. There are three friezes showing four royal visits to Liverpool.

The Statues, 1877

Spirit of Liverpool 1877, 1996 marble replica. A seated female figure with a castellated, holding a trident in her right hand, and having her left hand resting on a ship's propeller and a cotton bale. On this bales stands a liver bird. NB. See also the 2015 Spirit of Liverpool.

raphael / born 1483 died 1520 Raphael (Urbino 1483 - Rome 1520), Italian Renaissance painter and architect (Wikipedia).

michael angelo / born 1483 died 1583 Michelangelo (Caprese 1475 - Rome 1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance (Wikipedia).

The Friezes, 1878

Frieze west facade: The Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Walker Art Gallery by the Duke of Edinburgh [Prince Alfred] in September 1874.

Frieze front facade, west side: The Visit of Queen Victoria in 1851.

Frieze front facade, east side: King John granting the First Charter to the burgesses of Liverpool, A.D. 1207.

[No photograph] Frieze east facade: The Embarkation of King William III and his army at Hoylake in 1690.

Sculptor

• John Warrington Wood (Warrington 1839 - Warrington 1886), British sculptor of mythological subjects and portrait busts (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, List of public art in Liverpool.
• Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker Art Gallery.
• Terry Cavanagh, Public Sculpture of Liverpool. Liverpool University Press, 1997, pp. 296-298.
• The Victorian Web, Liverpool Architecture and Cityscapes.

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