Edwin Roscoe Mullins

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Edwin Roscoe Mullins
Born22 August 1848
Holborn, London
Died9 January 1907(1907-01-09) (aged 58)
NationalityBritish
Education Marlborough College
Alma mater
  • Lambeth School of Art
  • Royal Academy Schools
Known forSculpture

Edwin Roscoe Mullins (22 August 1848- 9 January 1907) was a British sculptor known for a number of architectural sculptures and smaller works featuring neo-classical figures. [1]

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Biography

Mullins was born at Holborn in central London and attended Lough Grammar School and, from 1863 to 1865, Marlborough College in Wiltshire. [2] He trained at the Lambeth School of Art before studying at the Royal Academy Schools from 1967. [3] In 1868 he won a gold medal in the National Art Competition for a model from the antique. [3] Mullins was sponsered at the Royal Academy Schools by the sculptor John Birnie Philip and subsequently worked for him as an assistant before moving to Munich where he studied under Michael Wagmüller and also shared a studio with Edward Onslow Ford. [3] [4] In 1872 he won a silver medal at Munich and a bronze at Vienna for his work Sympathy. [2]

Mullins returned to London around 1874. There, he created sculptures of neo-classical figures and portrait busts and statuettes and was, for a time, associated with the New Sculpture movement. [3] He became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery and in 1884 he was elected to the Art Workers Guild. [2] [3] He also exhibited with the Society of British Artists, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at Manchester City Art Gallery. [5] Mullins also received a number of public commissions and at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris was awarded a silver medal. [5] In 1890 he published A Primer of Sculpture and was appointed as an instructor in modelling for architecture at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1897. [3] [5] He died in 1907 at Walberswick in Suffolk. [1]

Selected public works

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DateTypeMaterialDimensionsDesignation Wikidata Notes
Beckton - Gallions Hotel - oriel window and frieze (geograph 6547082).jpg
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UntitledGallions Hotel, Newham 1881-83FriezePlaster Grade II* Q17553250 [6]
Major General Lousada Barrow Uttar Pradesh State Museum, Lucknow 1882StatueMarble [4]
Henry VII of England Scott's Building, King's College, Cambridge 1883Statue in nicheStoneGrade II [2] [7]
To Literature, Arts and Sciences.jpg School of Athens Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston1886Sculptural pedimentStone Grade I Q12059583 [3] [8]
High Street West, Dorchester - statue of William Barnes.jpg William Barnes St Peter's Church, Dorchester, Dorset 1888Statue on pedestalBronze and stone Grade II Q26412421 [9] [10]
Tomb of John Frederick Ginnett, Woodvale Cemetery, Brighton (IoE Code 482035).jpg Tomb of John Frederick GinnettWoodvale Cemetery, Brighton1893Tomb on plinth with equine statueGranite & Portland stone Grade II Q26661769 Ginnett was a circus owner. [3] [11] [12]
Croydon Old Town Hall, sculpture Study.jpg Study, Religion, Recreation, Health, Music Croydon Town Hall 1896Five decorative relief panelsStoneGrade II Q26483913 [2]
Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Kibble Palace. Edwin Roscoe Mullins - 'Cain' (c. 1899).jpg Cain Glasgow Botanic Gardens c. 1899StatueMarble
Queen Victoria statue outside the Main Library, Port Elizabeth,South Africa.jpg
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Queen Victoria Port Elizabeth, South AfricaUnveiled 1903Statue on pedestalMarble Q36692437 Commissioned for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, unveiled in 1903 and subject to a paint attack in 2010. [13] [14]

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