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Name
  
C. Allen

Role
  
Sculptor

Died
  
1956


C. J. Allen (sculptor) Amazoncom C J Allen 18621956 Sculptor and Teacher Liverpool

Charles John Allen (1862–1956) was a British sculptor, a figure in the New Sculpture movement.

Born in Greenford, Middlesex, Allen studied at the Lambeth School of Art and then apprenticed with the London architectural sculpture firm Farmer & Brindley in 1879 and became the assistant to Hamo Thornycroft for four years. In 1894 Allen moved to Liverpool, where he spent more than thirty years as a respected teacher at the University of Liverpool and Vice-Principal at the Liverpool City School of Art.

Work at:

  • two allegorical panels for St. George's Hall, Liverpool, 1894
  • work at the Liverpool University College (now University of Liverpool) with architect Alfred Waterhouse, 1895
  • frieze for the Royal Insurance Building, Liverpool, c. 1897
  • panels and other work for the Peres Bank, Leicester, c. 1900
  • the 1906 monument to Queen Victoria, Liverpool, Allen's masterwork
  • architectural sculpture for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Building, 1927
  • choir stall canopies and the font in Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool

    • References

    C. J. Allen (sculptor) Wikipedia
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