Matthew Noble

British sculptor (1817–1876) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Matthew Noble (23 March 1817 – 23 June 1876) was a leading British portrait sculptor. Carver of numerous monumental figures and busts including work, memorializing Victorian era royalty and statesmen, displayed in locations such as Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral and Parliament Square, London.[1]

Born23 March 1817
Hackness, Yorkshire, England
Died23 June 1876(1876-06-23) (aged 59)
Kensington, London, England
KnownforSculpture
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Matthew Noble
Noble pictured in
The Illustrated London News,
8 July 1876
Born23 March 1817
Hackness, Yorkshire, England
Died23 June 1876(1876-06-23) (aged 59)
Kensington, London, England
Known forSculpture
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Life

Noble was born in Hackness, near Scarborough, as the son of a stonemason, and served his apprenticeship under his father. He left Yorkshire for London when quite young, there he studied under John Francis (the father of sculptor Mary Thornycroft); he later married Francis's granddaughter, Frances Claxton.[2][3] Exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy from 1845 until his death, Noble became recognised after winning the competition to construct the Wellington Monument in Manchester in 1856.

Noble created a large body of work including portrait busts, statues and monuments. The deaths of two his sons, including Herbert (himself a promising sculptor, who was killed, aged 19, in the Abbots Ripton rail accident) are said to have contributed to Noble's own early death, aged 58, in June of the same year.[4] He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, on the west side of the main entrance path from the north, towards the central colonnade.[5] His uncompleted works were finished by his assistant Joseph Edwards, who also discarded the studio's plaster models.[4]

Selected works

1845-1849

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George Hudson National Railway Museum, York 1847 BustMarble [6]
William Smith Oxford University Museum of Natural History 1848 BustMarble [7]
John Philips Oxford University Museum of Natural History 1849 BustMarble [8]
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1850-1859

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Robert Peel Market Street, Tamworth, Staffordshire 1853 Statue on pedestalBronze Grade IIQ26491486 [9]

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Robert Peel Concert Hall of St George's Hall, Liverpool 1853 Statue in alcoveMarble [10]
Captain Edmund Moubray Lyons St Paul's Cathedral, London After 1855 Curved relief panelMarble [11]
Archbishop Harcourt York Minster 1855 Effigy on altar tombMarble
77th Regiment of Foot Crimean War memorial St Paul's Cathedral, London 1856 PlaqueMarble [12]

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester 1856 Statue on pedestal with supporting figuresBronze and granite Grade IIQ26561101 [13][14][15]

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Queen Victoria The Crescent, Salford 1857 Statue on pedestalLimestone Grade IIQ26665923 [13][16]
Joseph Brotherton Peel Park, Salford 1858 Statue on pedestalBronze and stone [17]

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James George Smith Neill Wellington Square, Ayr, and Madras, India [18] 1859 Statue on pedestal with plaquesBronze and stone Category BQ17838465 [19]
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1860-1869

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Mountstuart Elphinstone Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London After 1859 StatueStone [20]

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Archbishop Musgrave York Minster 1860 Effigy on altar tomb

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Marquess of Anglesey's Column Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey 1860 Statue on columnBrass statue12 foot statue on 100 ft column Grade II*Q17742135 Column architect, Thomas Harrison.[13][21][22]

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Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons St Paul's Cathedral, London 1862 Statue on pedestalMarble [23][24]

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Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet Westminster Abbey, London 1863 Bust on pedestal with supporting figuresMarble [25][26]

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Robert Bentley Todd King's College Hospital, London 1863 Statue on pedestalMarble Relocated 1913[27]
Albert, Prince Consort The Crescent, Salford 1864 Statue on pedestalLimestone Grade II [13][28]

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Albert, Prince Consort Albert Square, Manchester 1862-1865 Statue on pedestal with spired canopyMarble statue Grade IQ50281233 Canopy by Thomas Worthington[29][30]
Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton Wellington Square, Ayr 1865 Statue on pedestalBronze and stone Category BQ17838485 [31]

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Sir John Franklin Waterloo Place, London 1866 Statue on pedestal with relief panelsBronze and granite Grade IIQ26319141 [13][32]
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland Cliveden, Buckinghamshire 1866 Statue on pedestalBronze and granite Grade II [33]

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George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland Near Dunrobin Castle railway station, Golspie, Scotland 1866 Statue on pedestalBronze and granite Category BQ17829346 [34][35]

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Sir Peter Fairbairn Woodhouse Square, Leeds 1868 Statue on pedestalBronze and granite Grade IIQ26547184 [13][36]

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Market Place, Romsey 1868 Statue on pedestalBronze and pink marble Grade IIQ26525831 [13][37]
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1870 and later

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Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet Victoria Embankment Gardens, London 1871 Statue on pedestalBronze and granite Grade IIQ20054478 [13][38][39]
Sir James Ramsden Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness 1872 Statue on pedestalBronze and granite Grade II [13][40]
Harriet Howard, 2nd Duchess of Sutherland Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Scotland 1872 Bust in canopy with spireBronze and granite Category B [41][42]
Queen Victoria St Thomas' Hospital, London 1873 Seated statue on pedestalMarble and stone Q93424107 [43][44]
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Miller Park, Preston 1873 Statue on pedestalMarble and granite7.3m tall Grade II [45]

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Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Parliament Square, London 1874 Statue on pedestal with relief panelsBronze and granite Grade IIQ18116483 [13][46][47]

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George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen Westminster Abbey, London 1874 BustMarble [48]

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Sir John Franklin Westminster Abbey, London 1875 Bust and surroundMarble and alabaster [49]

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Oliver Cromwell Wythenshawe Hall, Manchester 1875 Statue on roughly-hewn pedestal and baseBronze and granite Grade IIQ26546639 [13][50][51]
Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham Lister Park, Bradford 1875 Statue on pedestal with reliefsMarble, granite and bronze Grade II [13][52]

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Robert Peel Parliament Square, London 1876 Statue on pedestalBronze and red granite Grade IIQ19277831 [13][53]
Bishop Thomas Carr St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai
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Church monuments and memorials

Throughout his career Noble was responsible for creating a number of monuments and memorials for British churches and cathedrals. Examples include

Memorial to Lady Vanden Bempde-Johnstone in the Chancel of the Church of St Peter, Hackness

Other works

David Napier, 1871

References

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