Henry Smith

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Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm worked initially as a medallist in his native city of Vienna. He was so successful when he exhibited his medals at the Exhibition of 1862 that he determined to abandon the execution of coins and medals and to concentrate instead on portrait busts and statuettes, chiefly equestrian. The large statue of Queen Victoria, executed in marble in 1869 for Windsor Castle, and the monument of the Duke of Kent in St George's chapel, were his earliest great works. In 1881, he was appointed Sculptor in Ordinary to the Queen. Boehm executed the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner and designed the coinage for the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Henry Smith

Date

1883

Medium

terracotta

Measurements

H 76.2 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

787

Acquisition method

donated by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt, 1888

Work type

Bust

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