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- ↑ Benezit Dictionary of Artists – Oxford Art Online [ dead link ]
- ↑ Anderson, David. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00004401.
- ↑ "Six Scottish Robert Burns statues" – Art UK, 22 January 2020
- ↑ "Niel Gow in 3D" – University of Edinburgh, 18 March 2015
- ↑ "Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951" – University of Glasgow
- ↑ Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1, Thompson Cooper (1890), p. 53