John Edward Carew
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John Edward Carew (c.1785-1 December 1868) was a notable Irish sculptor during the 19th century.
Thought to be the son of a local stonecutter, Carew was born in Tramore, and studied art in Dublin. Around 1809, he came to London to work for Sir Richard Westmacott.
He worked exclusively for the 3rd Earl of Egremont at Petworth in the 1820s and 1830s, and made some sculpture for the royal family, including two chimney pieces for Buckingham Palace. His most prominent work is the Death of Nelson - one of the four bronze panels on the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. He also produced the Dick Whittington sculpture (c.1844) on the Threadneedle Street side of the Royal Exchange.
Other portrait statues by Carew include:
- William Huskisson in Chichester[1]
- Henry Grattan in St Stephen’s Hall, Houses of Parliament
- Edmund Kean for the Drury Lane Theatre.
Church work includes:
- memorial to Edward Woods, Chichester Cathedral[2]
- memorial to Michael Nugent in Kensal Green Cemetery
- monument with figures to Sir Thomas Caryll, Shipley Church, Sussex (1831)[3]
- Baptism of Christ for church of St John the Baptist, Brighton (1835)[4]
- reredos in the Chapel of the Assumption, Warwick St, London[5]
- four works - statue of St. John the Baptist, the Immaculate Conception, St Francis of Assisi and St. Patrick - in Basilica of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador[6]
From about 1848, Carew's eyesight began to fail and he no longer exhibited his work. Carew was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
[edit] References
- ^ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/chichester.htm
- ^ http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/chichester.htm
- ^ 'Shipley: Church', A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 2: Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) including Horsham (1986), pp. 123-25. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18343. Date accessed: 28 October 2006
- ^ http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/reference.asp?index=4009&main_query=&theme=&period=&county=&district=&place_name=&imageUID=72961&=&JS=True
- ^ 'Golden Square Area: Warwick Street', Survey of London: volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2 (1963), pp. 167-73. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41468. Date accessed: 13 November 2006.
- ^ http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/rhs/rs_listing/102.html
