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'''The [[Victorian era]]''' was a golden age for [[sculpture]]. Among the most important sculptors: John Gibson, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Richard C. Belt, Sir Francis Chantrey, George Frampton, Thomas Longmore and John Hénk, Hamo Thornycroft, Thomas Wilkinson Wallis, and Harry Bates. [http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/sculpture-victorious] Sculpture could be found everywhere in Victorian Britain: in galleries, museums, and great exhibitions; in homes, parks, gardens and city squares. [http://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/current/undergraduate/2013-14-third-year-modules/4790710/]
'''The [[Victorian era]]''' was a golden age for [[sculpture]]. Among the most important sculptors: John Gibson, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Richard C. Belt, Sir Francis Chantrey, George Frampton, Sir Alfred Gilbert, Thomas Longmore and John Hénk, Hamo Thornycroft, Thomas Wilkinson Wallis, and Harry Bates. [http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/sculpture-victorious] Sculpture could be found everywhere in Victorian Britain: in galleries, museums, and great exhibitions; in homes, parks, gardens and city squares. [http://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/current/undergraduate/2013-14-third-year-modules/4790710/]
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As Britain became the first urban and industrial nation in the Victorian era, it witnessed a boom in sculpture with the development of new markets, forms of patronage and sites for display. Professor Hatt, from Warwick’s Department of History of Art, said: “During the reign of [[Queen Victoria]], public monuments were raised across [[Britain]] and its empire, while ambitious sculptural programmes were commissioned for public institutions. Exhibition spectaculars, such as the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, brought thousands of sculptural objects before audiences of millions.” [http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/victorian_sculpture_takes/]
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[[File:Landseer, Lion Nelson column Trafalgar London UK.jpg|thumb|270px|Sir Edwin Landseer, Lion, Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London, 1867.]]
[[File:Landseer, Lion Nelson column Trafalgar London UK.jpg|thumb|270px|Sir Edwin Landseer, Lion, Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London, 1867.]]