page_title: Edward Onslow Ford
section_title: Assessment
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Onslow Ford / Assessment
caption_attribution_description: en:Shelley Memorial, University College, Oxford, England
context_page_description: Edward Onslow Ford RA was an English sculptor.
context_section_description: Most of Ford's success came in portraiture. His busts are extremely refined and show his subjects at their best. Those in bronze of his fellow-artists Arthur Hacker (1894) and AJ Balfour are striking likenesses, as is the marble statue of Sir Frederick Bramwell for the Royal Institution.
  Ford's influence on the younger generation of sculptors was considerable. His charming disposition rendered him extremely popular, and when he died, a monument was erected to his memory (Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, sculptor, J W Simpson, architect) in St John's Wood, near his home. The monument comprises a stone pillar with a bronze seated figure in mourning at the front (based on Ford's statue The Muse of Poetry, a.k.a. Song and the mourning figure based on one in Ford's Shelley Memorial), and a wreathed bust of Ford at rear. It stands close to what is now the site of Abbey Road Studios and its famous zebra crossing (indeed, another zebra crossing allows access to the traffic island on which the monument stands).
caption: Ford's statue of the poet Shelley in the Shelley Memorial, University College, Oxford
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