page_title: Richard Westmacott
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Westmacott / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: William Pitt, sculpture at Pembroke College, Cambridge, England (UK). Sculptor: Richard Westmacott, 1819
context_page_description: Sir Richard Westmacott RA was a British sculptor.
context_section_description: Among his works are the reliefs for the north side of Marble Arch, the sculptures of figures representing The Rise of Civilisation on the pediment of the British Museum, and the Waterloo Vase now in Buckingham Palace Gardens. This enormous urn was sculpted from chunks of marble earmarked by Napoleon for a trophy commemorating his anticipated victory in the Napoleonic Wars and then given to George IV as a gift from the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
  His statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham was the first statue of Nelson in Britain. There are other monuments to  the admiral by Westmacott at the Bull Ring, Birmingham, in Barbados, while that at Liverpool was modelled and cast by Westmacott, to a design by Matthew Cotes Wyatt. In Liverpool there is also an equestrian statue of King George III sculpted by Westmacott, which was unveiled in 1822. He was responsible for the statue of the agriculturalist and developer Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford in  Russell Square, and the one of the Duke of York on top of the column in Waterloo place.  His Achilles in Hyde Park,  a  bronze  copy of an antique sculpture from  Monte Cavallo in Rome, is a tribute to the Duke of Wellington, paid for by £10,000 raised by female subscribers.
  His sculptures of poetical subjects  were in a style similar to those of the contemporary Italian school:  his works of this type included Psyche and Cupid for the Duke of Bedford; Euphrosyne for the Duke of Newcastle; A Nymph Unclasping her Zone;  The Distressed Mother and The Houseless Traveller.
  Westmacott also sculpted the memorials to William Pitt the Younger,  Spencer Perceval,  Charles James Fox and Joseph Addison in Westminster Abbey; the statue of Fox in Bloomsbury Square; and those to Sir Ralph Abercromby, Lord Collingwood and Generals Pakenham and Gibbs in St Paul's Cathedral.
  His other sepulchural monuments include those to Lt. General Christopher Jeaffreson  (died 1824) in St.Mary's Church in Dullingham;  to Commander Charles Cotton (died 1828) at St. Mary's Church in Madingley; to William Pemberton (died 1828) at St Margaret's Church  in Newton, South Cambridgeshire;  to Sir George Warren (died 1801) at St. Mary's Church, Stockport in Greater Manchester, depicting a standing female figure by an urn on a pillar; to  Rev. Charles Prescott  (died 1820), in St. Mary's Church, Stockport, showing a seated effigy and to Mary Henson (died 1805) in Bainton parish church, showing a seated figure against an urn.
  He created a sculptural group for the marble arch of the Cumberland Gate to Hyde Park.
caption: William Pitt
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