# List of public art in Mayfair

This is a list of public art in Mayfair, a district in the City of Westminster, London.
Mayfair is a residential and commercial area dominated by terraces of town houses. In Grosvenor Square there are several memorials with an American theme, including a memorial garden commemorating the September 11 attacks, due to the former presence on that square of the US Embassy. At the southern end of the district, the courtyard of Burlington House (home of the Royal Academy of Arts) on Piccadilly is frequently used as a temporary exhibition space for artworks.
Map of public art in Mayfair

## List

| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | Bust of Sekhmet | Sotheby's, 34–35 New Bond Street | 1320 BC c. 1320 BC | | | Bust | | |
| More images | Statue of William Pitt the Younger | Hanover Square 51°30′49″N 0°08′37″W﻿ / ﻿51.5136°N 0.1437°W﻿ / 51.5136; -0.1437﻿ (William Pitt the Younger) | 1831 | Francis Leggatt Chantrey | — | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 22 August 1831; there was an attempt by reformist opponents of Pitt to pull the statue down on the morning of the unveiling. Concerns for the work's security might have been the reason for the unusually tall plinth. |
| More images | Fountain Nymph | Berkeley Square 51°30′33″N 0°08′43″W﻿ / ﻿51.509116°N 0.145293°W﻿ / 51.509116; -0.145293 | 1867 | Alexander Munro | — | Fountain with sculpture | Grade II | Pedestal inscribed THE GIFT/ OF/ HENRY 3RD MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE. This Fountain Nymph was Munro's second treatment of the theme after that for the memorial to Herbert Ingram in Boston, Lincolnshire (1862–1863). He also produced a smaller marble version of the Berkeley Square Nymph, which was installed in a public garden in Oxford in around 1970. |
| | Architectural sculpture | 31 Old Bond Street | 1898–1900 | Farmer and Brindley after Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud | Arthur Beresford Pite | Reliefs | Grade II | The Michel­angel­esque crouching figures on the first storey are typical of the architect's work, while the draped female figures on the second storey evoke reliefs by Jean Goujon. The other detailing has been called "discreetly perverse". |
| | Drinking fountain | Mount Street Gardens 51°30′35″N 0°08′57″W﻿ / ﻿51.509719°N 0.149303°W﻿ / 51.509719; -0.149303﻿ (Drinking fountain) | 1892 | — | Ernest George | Fountain with sculpture | Grade II | Inscribed THIS FOUNTAIN WAS ERECTED BY HENRY LOFTS IN/ RECOGNITION OF MANY HAPPY YEARS IN MOUNT STREET/ SIR ERNEST GEORGE. RA FECIT 1892. Lofts was an estate agent, and George an architect, to the Grosvenor estate. Lofts's office was in Mount Street, which was partly rebuilt by his firm with George as architect. |
| | Portal sculpture | Sotheby's, 6–7 St George Street | c. 1904–1905 | Louis Fritz Roselieb | Charles Worley | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | |
| | Arms of John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham | Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly façade | 1911 | ? | Arthur Beresford Pite | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | |
| | Painting | Colnaghi, 144–146 New Bond Street | 1911 | Henry Poole | Lanchester and Rickards | Architectural sculpture | — | |
| | Assumption of the Virgin | Mount Street Gardens entrance of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street | 1914 | ? | W. H. Romaine-Walker | Tympanum | Grade II* | |
| | Science | 70–71 New Bond Street | c. 1914–1915 | Thomas Rudge | Palgrave & Co. | Architectural sculpture | — | |
| | Commerce | 70–71 New Bond Street | c. 1914–1915 | Louis Fritz Roselieb | Palgrave & Co. | Architectural sculpture | — | |
| | Art | 70–71 New Bond Street | c. 1914–1915 | Louis Fritz Roselieb | Palgrave & Co. | Architectural sculpture | — | |
| | Architectural sculpture | Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly façade | 1931 | Benjamin Clemens | Arthur Beresford Pite | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | |
| | Arms of John Compton Cavendish, 4th Baron Chesham | Burlington Arcade, Burlington Gardens façade | 1937 | ? | William George Sinning | Relief | Grade II | |
| More images | Statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt | Grosvenor Square 51°30′42″N 0°09′06″W﻿ / ﻿51.5118°N 0.1516°W﻿ / 51.5118; -0.1516﻿ (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) | 1948 | William Reid Dick | B. W. L. Gallannaugh; Mary Jenks (lettering) | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 12 April 1948 by Eleanor Roosevelt. The standing pose is intended to recall one of the moments when Roose­velt took the oath of office; he usually used a wheelchair due to his paralytic illness. Winston Churchill, who first proposed the statue, had hoped for a seated portray­al of the Presid­ent as a pendant to the statue of Abraham Lincoln on Parliament Square. |
| More images | Time–Life Screen | New Bond Street | 1952–1953 | Henry Moore | Michael Rosenauer | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | |
| | Eagle | 24 Grosvenor Square (the former US Embassy) | 1960 | Theodore Roszak | Eero Saarinen | Architectural sculpture | Grade II | |
| | Crouching Figure No. 4 | Carlos Place 51°30′36″N 0°08′57″W﻿ / ﻿51.510116°N 0.149074°W﻿ / 51.510116; -0.149074﻿ (Crouching Figure No. 4) | 1973 | Emilio Greco | Luca Clavarino (1987 setting) | Sculpture | — | Unveiled 20 November 1987. |
| More images | Horse and Rider | Corner of New Bond Street and Burlington Gardens | 1974–1975 | Elisabeth Frink | — | Equestrian statue | Grade II | Frink's catalogue raisonné notes that these figures personify "the most desirable masculine qualities", namely "speed, resilience, intelligence, loyalty, affection, courage, sensitivity, beauty and free sensuality". Another cast was erected in Winchester High Street in 1983. Previously situated on Dover Street near the junction with Piccadilly, the work was moved to its current location in 2018 to mark the opening of the Royal Academy's new entrance at 6 Burlington Gardens. |
| More images | Statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower | Grosvenor Square 51°30′42″N 0°09′10″W﻿ / ﻿51.511605°N 0.152759°W﻿ / 51.511605; -0.152759﻿ (Dwight Eisenhower) | 1969 | Robert Dean | Mayell Hart and Associates | Statue | — | Unveiled 23 January 1989. A gift from the people of Kansas City, Missouri. Other casts of this statue are at West Point Military Academy and Eisenhower's burial place in Abilene, Kansas. |
| | Hat box motifs | Bond Street tube station Jubilee line platforms | 1979 | Tom Eckersley | — | Tile motifs | — | |
| More images | RAF Eagle Squadrons Memorial | Grosvenor Square 51°30′40″N 0°09′04″W﻿ / ﻿51.511031°N 0.151140°W﻿ / 51.511031; -0.151140﻿ (RAF Eagle Squadrons Memorial) | 1986 | Elisabeth Frink | T. A. Kempster | Memorial with sculpture | Grade II | Unveiled 12 May 1986. |
| | Ducking Pond Row Fountain | Hanover Square 51°30′50″N 0°08′38″W﻿ / ﻿51.513761°N 0.143785°W﻿ / 51.513761; -0.143785﻿ (Ducking Pond Row Fountain) | 1988 | Paul Cooper | — | Fountain with sculpture | — | Originally erected in Bond Street. |
| More images | Taichi Spin Kick | St Andrew's Building, 17 Old Park Lane 51°30′17″N 0°09′00″W﻿ / ﻿51.50484°N 0.149943°W﻿ / 51.50484; -0.149943﻿ (Taichi Spin Kick) | 1991 | Ju Ming | — | Sculpture | — | |
| More images | Allies Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt | New Bond Street 51°30′38″N 0°08′33″W﻿ / ﻿51.510452°N 0.142507°W﻿ / 51.510452; -0.142507﻿ (Allies) | 1995 | Lawrence Holofcener | — | Sculptural group | — | Unveiled 2 May 1995, shortly before the 50th anniversary of VE Day, by Princess Margaret. The sculptor's wife gifted the group to the nation, but the Royal Fine Art Commission ruled out a location in a central London park. The Bond Street Association then expressed an interest in the work. |
| | Helix | 1–4 Curzon Street | 1998 | Eilìs O'Connell | | Architectural sculpture | — | |
| | London | Lancashire Court, on the approach to Handel & Hendrix in London 51°30′47″N 0°08′45″W﻿ / ﻿51.512977°N 0.145837°W﻿ / 51.512977; -0.145837﻿ (London) | 2001 | Michael Czerwiǹski (with Ray Howell) | — | Tile mural | — | Scenes of the city in ancient and modern times, hand-painted and in relief. |
| | Inscriptions | 21 Davies Street | 2003–2005 c. 2003–2005 | Ian Hamilton Finlay | Kohn Pederson Fox | Inscriptions | — | Quotations from the French revolutionary Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are inscribed on the terracotta façade: "Too many laws, too few examples" and "Les Mots Juste et Injuste Sont Entendus Par Toutes Les Consciences" |
| | Verge | 23 Savile Row | 2003–2008 | Joel Shapiro | Eric Parry | Architectural sculpture | | |
| | Salmon Leap | Outside 40 Berkeley Square 51°30′35″N 0°08′49″W﻿ / ﻿51.509807°N 0.146958°W﻿ / 51.509807; -0.146958﻿ (Salmon Leap) | 2004 | Michael Cooper | — | Sculpture | — | Refers to the Tyburn which once ran nearby. |
| | Granite Sculptures | Curzon Square 51°30′22″N 0°09′03″W﻿ / ﻿51.506042°N 0.150771°W﻿ / 51.506042; -0.150771﻿ (Granite Sculptures) | 2004 | John Aiken | Rolfe Judd | Sculptures | — | The bench-like sculptures are formed from black granite from Zimbabwe and silver-grey granite from Portugal spliced together. |
| | Untitled | Princes Street 51°30′52″N 0°08′34″W﻿ / ﻿51.514495°N 0.142779°W﻿ / 51.514495; -0.142779﻿ (Untitled) | 2004 | Alexander Beleschenko | — | Glass panels on building | — | |
| More images | Handbag Heads, or Entrance Sculpture | 1 Hanover Street | 2004/2005 | Bruce McLean | Sheppard Robson | Architectural sculpture | | |
| | Aspiration | In front of Leconfield House, Curzon Street 51°30′23″N 0°08′59″W﻿ / ﻿51.506486°N 0.149831°W﻿ / 51.506486; -0.149831﻿ (Aspiration) | 2006 | John Brown | — | Sculpture | — | |
| | New Burlington Flare | New Burlington Place 51°30′45″N 0°08′26″W﻿ / ﻿51.512386°N 0.140635°W﻿ / 51.512386; -0.140635﻿ (New Burlington Flare) | 2006 | Michael Bleyenberg | — | Light installation | — | |
| More images | Recalling – Revealing – Remaining | 20 Grafton Street | 2006 | Guðrún Sigríður Haraldsdóttir | — | Architectural sculpture | — | |
| | The Prophecy of Teiresias | Richard Green Gallery, 33 New Bond Street | 2011 | Alexander Stoddart | George Saumarez Smith of ADAM Architecture | Bas-reliefs | — | The three reliefs, representing scenes from the Odyssey, are an allegory of "the extreme lengths modern art has taken to distance itself from its origin in Greece". |
| More images | Silence Simon Milton | Mount Street / Carlos Place 51°30′37″N 0°08′57″W﻿ / ﻿51.510149°N 0.149240°W﻿ / 51.510149; -0.149240﻿ (Silence) | 2011 | — | Tadao Ando et al. | Water feature | — | A raised granite-edged pool into which two trees are set, and which emits clouds of water vapour for fifteen seconds every fifteen minutes. Jointly commissioned by the Grosvenor Estate and the Connaught Hotel; Blair Associates Architects and the Building Design Partnership were also involved the project. |
| More images | Shop Till You Drop | Bruton Lane 51°30′38″N 0°08′37″W﻿ / ﻿51.510477°N 0.143742°W﻿ / 51.510477; -0.143742﻿ (Shop Till You Drop) | 2011 | Banksy | — | Graffiti | — | |
| More images | Statue of Ronald Reagan | Grosvenor Square 51°30′39″N 0°09′09″W﻿ / ﻿51.510856°N 0.152416°W﻿ / 51.510856; -0.152416 | 2011 | Chas Fagan | — | Statue | — | Unveiled 4 July 2011. Westminster City Council's rule that a person may only be commemorated by a statue 10 years after their death was waived so that Margaret Thatcher could perform the unveiling, but she proved too unwell to attend the ceremony. A fragment of the Berlin Wall is incorporated into the pedestal. |
| More images | Terza Rima | 9–15 Sackville Street 51°30′34″N 0°08′18″W﻿ / ﻿51.509563°N 0.138212°W﻿ / 51.509563; -0.138212﻿ (Terza Rima) | 2011–2012 | Rebecca Salter | JM Architects | Designs screenprinted onto windows and a bronze panel | — | |
| More images | Three Figures | Bourdon Place | 2012 | Neal French | — | Statues | — | Unveiled by Twiggy, one of the work's subjects, on 31 May 2012. A plaque nearby provides the following exegesis: "A passing shopper stumbles upon/ Terence Donovan photographing the model Twiggy/ near to his studio in 1960s Mayfair". |
| | Portcullis Gates | 33 Davies Street 51°30′43″N 0°08′53″W﻿ / ﻿51.511904°N 0.148053°W﻿ / 51.511904; -0.148053﻿ (Portcullis Gates) | 2013 | Wendy Ramshaw | HOK | Gates | — | 3.6 metres (12 ft)-high bronze gates with abstract patterns of "flowing lines and inter­sect­ing arcs ... re­flect­ing the life and style of Mayfair", which can be lowered at night in the manner of a portcullis. |
| | An Age, An Instant | New Burlington Mews | 2014 | Rona Smith | — | Gate | — | Unveiled 29 April 2014. The artist took her inspiration from turn-of-the-century pocket watches, as this locale was a centre for the watchmaking trade in the early 20th century when the building's façade was rebuilt. |
| | ROOM | Beaumont Hotel, Brown Hart Gardens | 2014 | Antony Gormley | | Sculpture | — | |
| | Cinch | Burlington Arcade, Burlington Gardens façade | 2017 | Antony Gormley | | Sculpture | | |
| | Horizon Line | Bond Street station | 2017 | Darren Almond | John McAslan + Partners | Installation | — | |
| | Shadow Line | Bond Street station | 2017 | Darren Almond | John McAslan + Partners | Installation | — | |
| | Time Line | Bond Street station | 2017 | Darren Almond | John McAslan + Partners | Installation | — | |
| | Everyone I've Ever Known | Medici Courtyard, behind Bond Street station | 2020 | Rhys Coren | | Mural | — | |
| More images | Landline | Hanover Square | 2023 | Sean Scully | | Sculpture | — | |
| | Swarm | No. 1 Grosvenor Square | 2023 | Alison Wilding | | Sculpture | — | |
| | Elephant | Aspinall's, Curzon Street 51°30′23″N 0°08′58″W﻿ / ﻿51.506364°N 0.149459°W﻿ / 51.506364; -0.149459﻿ (Elephant) | ? | ? | — | Statue | — | The gambling club's founder, John Aspinall, was a noted wildlife enthusiast whose two animal parks in Kent, Howletts and Port Lympne, are funded by the club's proceeds. |

### Burlington House

Sydney Smirke's remodelling of Burlington House for the Royal Academy of Arts in 1872–1873 included adding an additional storey to house the Diploma Galleries; the resulting windowless exterior was adorned with statues of artists in niches. A freestanding statue by Alfred Drury of Joshua Reynolds, the Academy's founding president, was installed at the centre of the courtyard in 1931. In 2002 the courtyard was refurbished to a design by Michael Hopkins, after the Academy received a donation from Walter and Leonore Annenberg. At the suggestion of the architect Ian Ritchie, the lights and fountains set into the pavement were arranged in the position of the planets, the Moon and some of the bright stars as they would have appeared over London on the night of Reynolds's birth. The courtyard is used as an exhibition space for temporary artworks.
| Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation | Notes |
| | Statue of Phidias | Second-floor façade, 1st niche from left | c. 1872 | Joseph Durham | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Statue of Leonardo da Vinci | Second-floor façade, 2nd niche from left | c. 1872 | Edward Bowring Stephens | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Statue of John Flaxman | Second-floor façade, 3rd niche from left | c. 1872 | Henry Weekes | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Statue of Raphael | Second-floor façade, 4th niche from left | c. 1872 | Henry Weekes | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Statue of Michelangelo | Second-floor façade, 5th niche from left | c. 1872 | William Calder Marshall | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Statue of Titian | Second-floor façade, 6th niche from left | c. 1872 | William Calder Marshall | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Statue of Joshua Reynolds | Second-floor façade, 7th niche from left | c. 1872 | Edward Bowring Stephens | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Statue of Christopher Wren | Second-floor façade, 8th niche from left | c. 1872 | Edward Bowring Stephens | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Statue of William of Wykeham | Second-floor façade, 9th niche from left | c. 1872 | Joseph Durham | Sydney Smirke | Statue in niche | Grade II* | |
| | Architectural sculpture | Ground-floor arcade | c. 1872 | John Birnie Philip | Sydney Smirke | Architectural sculpture | Grade II* | |
| More images | Royal Academy War Memorial | West wall, within ground-floor arcade | 1922 | Emile Madeline and Herbert Tyson Smith | Trenwith Wills | Plaque | Grade II* | |
| | Artists' Rifles War Memorial | East wall, within ground-floor arcade | 1922 | William Drinkwater Gough and Arthur Ayres | Geoffrey Webb | Plaque | Grade II* | |
| More images | Statue of Joshua Reynolds | Annenberg Courtyard 51°30′32″N 0°08′22″W﻿ / ﻿51.5089°N 0.1394°W﻿ / 51.5089; -0.1394﻿ (Joshua Reynolds) | 1931 | Alfred Drury | Giles Gilbert Scott | Statue | Grade II | Unveiled 12 December 1931. Drury was awarded the commission in 1917, but was too preoccupied with war memorials in the following years to proceed with the work. In 1926 he had to start over with a new composition after his studio assistant failed to keep the first clay figure moist every night, which had led to its disintegration. |

### 6 Burlington Gardens

6 Burlington Gardens, a Grade II* listed building now used by the Royal Academy, was designed by James Pennethorne in 1866–1867 for the University of London. In 1868 the university's Senate proposed the subjects of the 22 statues for the façade: Isaac Newton to represent Science, Jeremy Bentham for Law, John Milton for the Arts and William Harvey for Medicine; Galen, Cicero, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes and Tribonian (the last of whom was replaced in the final scheme by Justinian) as representatives of "ancient culture", and the "illustrious foreigners" Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Georges Cuvier, Carl Linnaeus, Galileo Galilei, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Finally, Adam Smith, John Locke, Francis Bacon, John Hunter, William Shakespeare (replaced by David Hume) and John Dalton (replaced by Humphry Davy) were included as "English worthies" (although Smith, Hunter and Hume were Scottish). Shakespeare was substituted as his achievement was felt to be "independent of academic influence"; he was instead commemorated with a statue apart, inside the building.
| Title / subject | Location and coordinates | Date | Artist / designer | Architect / other | Type | Designation |
| Statue of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | First storey | 1870s | Patrick MacDowell | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | Grade II* |
| Statue of Georges Cuvier | First storey | 1870s | Patrick MacDowell | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | Grade II* |
| Statue of Carl Linnaeus | First storey | 1870s | Patrick MacDowell | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | Grade II* |
| Statue of Adam Smith | First storey | 1870s | William Theed | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | Grade II* |
| Statue of John Locke | First storey | 1870s | William Theed | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | Grade II* |
| Statue of Francis Bacon | First storey | 1870s | William Theed | James Pennethorne | Statue in niche | Grade II* |
| Statue of Isaac Newton | Above the portico | 1870s | Joseph Durham | James Pennethorne | Seated statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Jeremy Bentham | Above the portico | 1870s | Joseph Durham | James Pennethorne | Seated statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of John Milton | Above the portico | 1870s | Joseph Durham | James Pennethorne | Seated statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of William Harvey | Above the portico | 1870s | Joseph Durham | James Pennethorne | Seated statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Galileo Galilei | Eastern balustrade | 1870s | Edward William Wyon | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Eastern balustrade | 1870s | Edward William Wyon | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Pierre-Simon Laplace | Eastern balustrade | 1870s | Edward William Wyon | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Galen | Central balustrade | 1870s | James Sherwood Westmacott | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Cicero | Central balustrade | 1870s | James Sherwood Westmacott | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Aristotle | Central balustrade | 1870s | James Sherwood Westmacott | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Plato | Central balustrade | 1870s | William F. Woodington | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Archimedes | Central balustrade | 1870s | William F. Woodington | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Justinian I | Central balustrade | 1870s | William F. Woodington | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of John Hunter | Western balustrade | 1870s | Matthew Noble | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of David Hume | Western balustrade | 1870s | Matthew Noble | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |
| Statue of Humphry Davy | Western balustrade | 1870s | Matthew Noble | James Pennethorne | Statue | Grade II* |