Thomas Henry Huxley, FRS (1825-1895)

Frank Bowcher

c. 1900

Bronze tondo, in original ebonized frame

8 inches (diameter)

Bowcher sculpted this bas relief, which appears on the reverse of the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Instutute, after Edward Onslow Ford's statue of Huxley now in the Natural History Museum, London.

Private collection

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(b. London, 1864; d London, 6 Dec 1938). British medallist and sculptor. He studied in London at the National Art Training School, under Edward Onslow Ford; and in Paris, where he was influenced by the work of Jules-Cl?ment Chaplain and Oscar Roty. In 1886 he produced a medallic portrait of the Khedive of Egypt and in the following year was commissioned by the Royal Mint to produce designs for the Egyptian coinage. The 1890s saw an increasing number of commissions for medals: from the City of London for the Visit of the King and Queen of Denmark, the Opening of Tower Bridge and the Diamond Jubilee; from the Geological Society for the Joseph Prestwich medal; and from the Royal College of Science for the Thomas Huxley memorial medal (all London, B.M.). In 1903, following the death of George William de Saulles, Bowcher stepped in to finish the great seal of Edward VII. He was a founder-member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and until the 1930s exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy. In the early 1920s he produced, under the direction of M. H. Spielmann (1858-1948), a series of plaquettes of the rulers of Baroda. — Answers.com

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