John Doubleday

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The only public seated statue of the fictional Sherlock Holmes is sculpted by John Doubleday at Meiringen, Switzerland close to the Reichenbach Falls where Holmes is said to have had his final confrontation with his nemesis Professor Moriarty

John Doubleday (b. 1947) is a British painter and sculptor famous for his public sculptures and statues.

Doubleday was born in 1947 in Langford, near Maldon and studied sculpture at Goldsmith's College. He has enjoyed a successful career as a public sculptor since his first one-man show at the Waterhouse and Dodd Gallery, London in 1968.

His commissioned portraits include:

• HRH Prince Philip
• Golda Meir
• Charlie Chaplin (at Leicester Square, London)
• Dylan Thomas
• The Beatles (in Liverpool)
• Sir Laurence Olivier
• Sherlock Holmes (at Marylebone Road / Baker Street, London and at Meiringen, Switzerland)
• Gerald Durrell (at the Jersey Zoo, Jersey)
• Nelson Mandela (in South Africa)