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Прежде всего George Gammon Adams известен как автор проектов(сейчас сказали бы дизайнер wink.gif ) многих известных медалей.Но вот наткнулся на изображение Empress of India Medal и коробки из под неё.Получается,что он не только был её автором ,но и изготовителем.

 

George Gammon (sometimes spelled Gamon) Adams was born in 1821. Little is known about his background and early years, but it is known that he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1840 on the recommendation of the medallist William Wyon (1795-1851). That same year, he won a silver medal at the Academy and in 1841, exhibited a medallion of Melpomene. In 1844 he produced his statue of An Ancient Briton at Westminster Hall. The Literary Gazette opined ‘a capital figure for an aspirant, great decision in the muscular development, as well as in character and drawing. Mr Adams has done this well, but he’ll live to do better.’ In 1845 another competition was held for sculpture for the new Palace of Westminster and Adams submitted his The Contest between the Minstrel and the Nightingale. In 1846 he spent a year studying in Rome under the noted sculptor John Gibson. He then worked for Wyon at the Royal Mint on Tower Hill. In 1847 Adams won the Gold Medal of the RA for his piece The Murder of the Innocents. He won a prize of £100 for his design of the Jurors’ Medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and designed the medal presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the opening of the Crystal Palace on its move to Sydenham in south London. At the Great Exhibition, he showed his The Murder of the Innocents, The Combat of Centaurs and Lapithae and Figure with a Torch. On the afternoon of 14 September 1852, at the age of 84, the Duke of Wellington breathed his last at Walmer Castle in Kent, his official residence as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Adams was selected to take the death mask of the greatest soldier these islands have ever produced. On 18 September, The Times reported, that he ‘has been fortunate enough to secure a cast of the Duke’s face, and this memorial of him will, no doubt hereafter be highly valued as an authentic likeness.’ Adams afterwards produced a marble bust of the Duke and Queen Victoria purchased it in 1853. Other works by the artist in the Royal Collection include a bust of George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge and a medal commemorating Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. Subsequently, he was commissioned to produce several public monuments, and also modelled a series of busts of the great and the good. Adams’ style was rather severe and his statues tend to the unsentimental. His medals include: Funeral Medal of the Duke of Wellington; The Opening of Blackfriars Bridge and Holborn Valley Viaduct; Visit of King George I of the Hellenes to the City of London; Albert Victor Receives Freedom and The Marriage of the Duke and Duchess of York. Adams’ bronze statue of General Sir Charles Napier was erected on the south-west plinth in Trafalgar Square. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, Napier figured large in events in India, being Commander-in-Chief 1870-76. He was responsible for the annexation of Scind in 1843 and as a Parliamentary Radical, was sympathetic to the Chartists. He was victor at the Battle of Magdala in Ethiopia in 1868 and plundered the treasury of the mad Emperor Theodore II. He was Governor of Gibraltar (1876-82) and later became Field Marshal 1st Baron Napier of Magdala. Most unusually, the statue was universally condemned by the critics. The Art Journal wrote: ‘the slightest attention to natural form and movement is all that is necessary for the condemnation of the statue of Gen Napier, in Trafalgar Sq, as perhaps the worst piece of sculpture in England. The moral and relative worthlessness of the work exceeds tenfold its formal imperfection. To see in these days a mass so dull and soulless… for how much so ever we may pardon our great men for the good they have done their country, we can never forgive their re-appearance among us in such guise as they present themselves in Trafalgar Square.’ His other public statuary included: Admiral Sir Charles Napier for St Paul’s Cathedral; Richard Cobden for Stockport; Baron Seaton at Devonport, Hugh McNeile, Dean of Ripon for St George’s Hall, Liverpool; General Sir Charles Napier for St Paul’s Cathedral; The Good Shepherd for St Stephen’s Hall, Palace of Westminster and a bronze Duke of Wellington for Norwich, somewhat lacking in presence. He exhibited at the RA 1841-85. Plaster casts of his busts of the Prince Consort; Lord Brougham; Lord Palmerston; Sir Henry Havelock; Sir Charles Napier; Lord Seaton and Sir Harry Smith may be found in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Adams died in 1898.

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