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George Gammon Adams

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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."
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of 1851, and was one of the three artists whose designs were used on the medals awarded to exhibitors. In the following year he was given the honour of making the
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Adams' style has been judged as severe and unsentimental. His 1856 statue of Napier in Trafalgar Square was the subject of unusually wide critical condemnation.
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and trained as a sculptor and medallist. He won a silver medal at the academy in the same year. He was taught to model and cut medals and coin dies by
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Adams exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1841 to 1885. He died at his home, Acton Green Lodge in
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Adams' statue of General Charles Napier in Trafalgar Square
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Schools in 1840 on the recommendation of the medallist
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Index

Charles Napier
Trafalgar Square

Staines
Royal Academy
William Wyon
Benedetto Pistrucci
Rome
John Gibson
London
Royal Mint
Tower Hill
Great Exhibition
death mask
Duke of Wellington
busts
Chiswick
The Art Journal
Henry Langhorne Thompson
St Paul's Cathedral
Sir Duncan MacDougall
St Paul's Cathedral
Gerald Wellesley
Stratfield Saye
Westminster Hall
Charles Napier
Trafalgar Square
General Sir Charles Napier
St Paul's Cathedral
Richard Cobden

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