Richard Westmacott (1799 - 19 April 1872) - also sometimes described as Richard Westmacott III (to distinguish him from his father and grandfather - both sculptors bearing the same name) - was a prominent English

England

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 sculptor of the early- and mid-19th century.

Born in London

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, he was the son of Sir Richard Westmacott

Richard Westmacott

Sir Richard Westmacott, Jr., RA was a British sculptor.-Life and career:He studied under his father, Richard Westmacott the Elder, before going to Rome in 1793 to study under Antonio Canova...

 (1775-1856), and followed closely in his father's footsteps: studying at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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 (from 1818), being elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy (in 1838) and a full Academician (in 1849), and then succeeding his father to serve as the RA's professor of sculpture (1857-1868) - the only time an RA professorship passed from father to son.

Among his most notable works is the pediment of the Royal Exchange

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 in the City of London

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. Other works include:

• the tomb of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
  Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke
  Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke KG, PC, FRS , known as Philip Yorke until 1790, was a British politician.-Background and education:...
  
   at St Andrew's Church in Wimpole
  Wimpole
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  , Cambridgeshire
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• monument commemorating Sir John Franklin
  John Franklin
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  's lost Arctic
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   expedition of 1845, now in the Chapel sacristy at Greenwich Hospital, south-east London.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1837, his candidacy citation saying that he was "Richard Westmacott Junr Esqr of 21 Wilton Place Belgrave Square, Sculptor, Author of the Article "Sculpture" in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

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, and of various Essays and Articles on Art, and Antiquity, a gentleman devoted to Science in general, and the fine Arts in particular"

He is commemorated by a memorial in St Mary Abbots

St Mary Abbots

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 church in Kensington

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, west London.