Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) reformer of nursing and of the Army Medical Services

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Downing Street

This work by the sculptor, painter, book illuminator and mosaic designer Arthur George Walker, is a miniature version of Walker’s statue of Florence Nightingale, located in Waterloo Place, London. The larger sculpture, commissioned in 1910 as a memorial to those killed in the Crimean War, was erected in 1915.

Arthur George Walker was born in Hackney. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, eventually being appointed a Royal Academician towards the end of his life, in 1936. Walker produced figurative and monumental sculpture, and was also a painter, book illuminator and mosaic designer. Other public monuments by him include a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, located at the entrance to Victoria Park Gardens in Westminster, an equestrian statue of John Wesley in Bristol and a statue of Sir Philip Sidney in Shrewsbury.

People

Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910)

Places

Subjects

female portrait, woman, 19th century costume, nurse, medical & nursing reform

Materials & Techniques

bronze

Artist

Arthur George Walker (1861 - 1939)

Title

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) reformer of nursing and of the Army Medical Services

Date

Medium

Bronze statuette

Dimensions

height: 46.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christopher Wood Gallery, October 1987

Inscription

monogram on base

GAC number

16632