Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)

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Trade unionist and politician Ernest Bevin was born in Somerset and spent his early life as an unskilled worker in Bristol, working first as a butcher's assistant and then as a van driver for a mineral water company. He eventually became a paid trade union official for the Docker's Union at Avonmouth and was later appointed the General Secretary for the Transport and General Workers Union. He was elected unopposed as MP for Central Wandsworth and served in Winston Churchill's coalition government during the Second World War. This sculpture was modelled by Avraham Melnikoff in around 1941, but due to a delay caused by the war it was not cast by Parlanti's Art Foundry in Chiswick until 1944.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Ernest Bevin (1881–1951)

Date

1944

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 48 x W 25 x D 25 cm;
Plinth: H 6 x W 21 x D 22 cm

Accession number

L289

Acquisition method

purchased with the assistance of the Wills Fund and the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1944

Work type

Bust

Signature/marks description

back of neck: A Melnikoff

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