The death is announced, at Neuilly, of Mr Charlei Summers, the sculptor* of Borne. Mr Summers wai born in Somersetshire in 1828, and while a student at the Royal Academy took several prizes, including thft silver medal for modelling His father emigrating to Australia, he went to that colony, where he lived for many years, and produced'many busts and medallion portraits of well known men in the colony, one of the best being the bust of Captain Start, the.eiplorer. In 1866 Mr Summers returned to Europe and settled in Rome, where he produced a large, number of works. -Shortly, before hii death he completed four sitting portraits of Her, Majesty,,the Princess of Wales the Prince Concert, and the Prince of Wales ; and had he lived it was his intention to have gone out to Melbourne this year to have superientended the setting up of theife statues in the gallery of the Public Library; there. A clothier has excited public curiosity 1 by having a large apple painted on his sign. When asked for an explanation, he replied: "If it hadn't been for an apple, where would the ready-made-clothing •tpres.i»eto«day,fc"'.i;^ '
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3105, 30 January 1879, Page 3
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189Untitled Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3105, 30 January 1879, Page 3
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