FAMOUS SCULPTOR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 2

FAMOUS SCULPTOR

NUMEROUS MEMiORIALS IN EVERY PART 6f EMiPIRE • i>EATH IN LONDON London, Nov. 17. Mr. John Tweed, the famous British sculptoiywho was in 'his sixties, died in a London nursing home. He had heen ill for some weeks with a ch'ill, and complications followed. This famous Britoish . sculptor might have been called "the sculptor of Empire" for he had probably been responsible for more memorials of Imperial leaders than any other man. His work graces Britain and many parts of the Empire over-seas, and the list of men he has immortalised in stone reads like British' history. Possiibly his best known works were tiie national memorial to Earl Kitchener on the Horse Guards Parade, S.W., and the monuments to iCecil Rhodes at Bulawayo, Salisbury (Rhodesia), iand- Mafeking. (Mr. Tweed was responsible for the marble bust of Joseph Chamberlain in Westminster Abbey, the statues of Lord Clive in London and Calcutta, and 'monuments' fo Captaim Cook" at Whitby and St. Kilda. He alSo carved ■memorials to Queen Victoria at Aden and Madras, and completed the Alfred ' iStevens monument to th'e Duke of Wiellington in ,St. Paul's Cathedral. 'For' his statue of Joseph Chamberlain he studied .photographs by the score, and was greatly belped by a film of the politician making a speech which sh'owed every characteristic ges ture. Even some clothes which C * lain had wom were lent to Mr. Tweed so that his statue might lack nothing in accuracy. .Mr. Tweed was so modest that invariably when any of his work was ■being unveiled, instead of being a 'prominent figure, he was quietly worki.ng at his studio. A distinguis'hed example of his recent Work is the House of Lords '(Wfar Memorial, which was unveiled by the Prince of Wlales last year. ■' Mr. Tweed's early training as a sculptor ibegan in Glasgow, where he was born and afterwards he studied with Sir Wiilliam Hamo Thornycroft in London, and M. Falguiere in Paris. He leaves a widow, one son, and two daughters.