[The following information comes from Katharine Harris’s website about her grandfather and personal communications — George P. Landow]
Thomas was a skilled and talented Sculptor of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Amongst his early work were the decorative reliefs for Manchester Council Chamber and a life size plaster figure of St Patrick for the Church of the Sacred Heart, Thornton Cleveleys, Liverpool. In 1904, a life size kneeling figure in marble was the first piece of his work to be exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Biographical Material
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Nudes
- Youth (sometimes called Mysteries
- Tidal Wave
- Roses
- Belgium
- Fountain Figure (Boy with Fish)
- Eurydice
- Hope
- Ricochet
- Lilies
- Spring
- Dawn
Portraits & Portrait busts
- Dinah Hamilton Crook (the artist’s mother)
- Bishop Casartelli
- Alessandra Roses
- Anna Airey •••
- First Communicant
- Miss Blomfield (marble head)
- Miss Blomfield (bust)
- Sir Thomas Picton
- Lady with Plaited Hair
- Daughter of the Artist
- Mrs. Doyle Allan
- Head of a Girl
- Bust of a Young Girl
- H. M. Smith
- Rev. Mother M. M. A. Ellis, Late Superior of Loreto Convent, Hulme•••
- W. Carter, Esq.•••
- Sabina•••
- Laura•••
- Pope Pius XII•••
- His Majesty George VI•••
- Bust of an Old Man•••
- Edmund Burke (reduced size copy of J. H. Foley’s statue in Westminster)
Ecclesiastical works
- Vision of Chateauneuf [St. Anthony and the Christ Child], St. Mary’s Church, Standishgate, Wigan
- Pietà, St. Katharine’s Church, Rotherhithe (war memorial) —
- Cross in Portland stone with a small crucifix on the top and two figures on the cross beam, Mary and St John, St. Saviour’s Church, Raynes Park, London (war memorial) — Maquette
- Crucifix in Portland stone, St. Lawrence Church, Caterham, Surrey (war memorial)
- St. Patrick, Church of The Sacred Heart, Thornton, Cleveleys
- Annunciation, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Standishgate, Wigan
- Twenty Saints and Prophets, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Standishgate, Wigan
- Lady Altar, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Standishgate, Wigan
- Crucifix, All Saints Church, Streetly, near Sutton Coldfield. (war memorial)
- Crucifix, St. John the Baptist Church, Felixstowe (war memorial)•••
- Angel Lecturn
- War Memorial in bronze and-gold mosaic
- Altar Piece with Crucifixion, St. George, and another saint
- St. Therese of Lisieux
- Prayer
Bas Reliefs
- Signs of the Zodiac, Council Chamber, Manchester School of Science and Technology
- Caryatids in Council Chamber
- St. Cecilia
- Bas-relief panel of a young boy
- Philosophy, Religion, Sociology, Philology, Natural Science, Applied Science, Fine Arts, Literature, and History, New Malden Library, Kingston, Surrey•••
- Caxton and his Printing Press, New Malden Library•••
Miscellaneous
- Britannia, National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, Staffordshire. — >plaster model
- Britannia, Offices of the London and Lancashire Insurance company, London — >plaster model
- Coat of Arms and Shield, Bank of New South Wales
- Cupid
- A Capture•••
Bibliography
“Thomas Mewburn Crook ARCA, RBA, FRBS, HRI .” Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture. Web. 20 September 2017.
Last modified 11 October 2017