page_title: Lady Feodora Gleichen
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Lady Feodora Gleichen / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Florence Nightingale The London Road statue of Florence Nightingale, including the surrounding stonework, is a Listed Building (Grade 2). Dating from 1914, it stands in front of the grounds to Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. The sculptor was Countess Feodora Gleichen, who was related to Queen Victoria. She was the first woman member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Florence Nightingale's family had a home at Lea Hurst, near Derby. In 1860 Dr William Ogle was appointed to the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary at a time when the mortality rate amongst patients was high. After lengthy correspondence with Florence, it was decided to rebuild the hospital along lines suggested by her. The new DRI opened in 1869 with a wing named after her.
context_page_description: Lady Feodora Georgina Maud Gleichen was a British sculptor of figures and portrait busts and designer of decorative objects.
context_section_description: After her father's death in 1891, she took over his studio inside of St James's Palace.
  Gleichen was a multidisciplinary artist, creating large sculptures for public venues as well as smaller objects, portrait busts, drawings, small bronzes and bas reliefs. She produced many decorative objects such as frames, chalices and small sculptures, sometimes for the use of the royal family.  A bas-relief and hand-mirror in jade and bronze won her a bronze medal in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. She also helped with illustrations for the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet in 1904.
caption: Florence Nightingale - geograph.org.uk - 716771
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