page_title: George Edwin Ewing
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: George Edwin Ewing / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Albert Bridge detail. Queen Victoria carving on the south east side of the bridge. See also 943540.
context_page_description: George Edwin Ewing was a Scottish sculptor.
  He was born in Birmingham, the son of sculptor James Ewing and the brother of sculptor James Alexander Ewing.
  He grew up in Edinburgh and Glasgow and learned his trade in Liverpool and London, including in the modelling room of Covent Garden Theatre, before setting up in business in Glasgow in 1859. He then spent some time in Rome in the 1860s studying under the sculptor John Gibson before returning to Glasgow in 1862.
  He went on to be the most successful Scottish sculptor of his time. Whilst his reputation stemmed from his marble busts of prominent Scots and the Royal Family, his most well-known commission was the bronze statue of Robert Burns in George Square, Glasgow, created in 1874-77, which was later enhanced with three bronze panels by his brother James in 1885-7. Whereas much of his work on public buildings has been lost during demolition, significant works remain to be seen in the cemeteries of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
  In 1879 he moved to America for health reasons, working in New York and Philadelphia, but achieving only limited success.
context_section_description: Mrs William Sim (1862)
  Lord Clyde (1863)
  Lord Elcho; Daniel Macnee; Thomas Faed; John Baird, of Cambusdoon
  Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales (1869)
  Sir Archibald Alison, the politician
  Sir Charles Tennent, the chemical manufacturer
  Queen Victoria and Prince Albert medallions, Albert Bridge, Glasgow (1871)
  William Sim, Contractor to Glasgow Corporation’s Police and Statute Labour Committee (1872)
  Robert Burns (1877)
caption: Queen Victoria medallion, Albert Bridge
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