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Name
  
John Doubleday


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Education
  
Goldsmiths, University of London

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John Doubleday (born 9 Oct 1947) is a British painter and sculptor famous for his public sculptures and statues. He is a figurative sculptor, who works mostly in bronze. He was influenced by Charles Despiau, while spending time at the Musée Bourdelle, Paris.

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Doubleday was born in 1947 in Langford, near Maldon, Essex and studied at Stowe and sculpture at Goldsmiths College. He has enjoyed a successful career as a public sculptor since his first one-man show at the Waterhouse and Dodd Gallery, London in 1968.

He created two- and three-dimensional art and when he created the statue of Nelson he agreed that the sum would be given to charity.

His commissioned portraits include:

  • HRH Prince Philip
  • Golda Meir
  • Charlie Chaplin (at Leicester Square, London)
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Dorothy L Sayers (1995 Witham)
  • Horatio Nelson (in Gibraltar)
  • The Beatles (in Liverpool)
  • Sir Laurence Olivier
  • Sherlock Holmes (at Marylebone Road / Baker Street, London and at Meiringen, Switzerland)
  • Gerald Durrell (at the Durrell Wildlife Park, Jersey)
  • Nelson Mandela (in South Africa)
  • References

    John Doubleday Wikipedia