List of public art in Kensington and Chelsea

This is a list of public art in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Chelsea

Image Title / individual commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Boy with a Dolphin Albert Bridge 1975 David Wynne
Béla Bartók South Kensington Tube Station (currently relocated)
Venus Sloane Square 1953 Gilbert Ledward [1]
Hans Sloane Duke of York Square
Boy and Girl Playing Leap Frog Duke of York Square
'The Boy David' Machine Gun Corps Memorial Chelsea Embankment Edward Bainbridge Copnall
Atlanta Chelsea Embankment 1929 (erected) cast from work of Francis Derwent Wood
Sir Thomas More Cheyne Walk 1969 (unveiled) L.Cubitt Bevis
Thomas Carlyle Chelsea Embankment 1882 Joseph Boehm [2]
Sir Hans Sloane (replica) Original in the British Museum Chelsea Physic Garden John Michael Rysbrack
King Charles II Figure Court of Royal Hospital Chelsea 1676 Grinling Gibbons
Chelsea In-pensioner Royal Hospital Chelsea 2000 Philip Jackson
James Abbott McNeill Whistler Battersea Bridge north side 2005 Nicholas Dimbleby
Nell Gwyn Nell Gwyn house, Sloane Avenue [1]
Carabiniers Boer War Memorial Chelsea Embankment opposite Chelsea Bridge 1905 Adrian Jones
Woman and 4 horses Pizza Express, King's Road
Girl with Doves Cadogan Square 1970 David Wynne
The Dancers Cadogan Square 1971 David Wynne
Dancer with Bird Cadogan Square 1975 David Wynne

Kensington

Image Title / individual commemorated Location Date Sculptor Source
Statue of Prince Albert, part of the Albert Memorial Kensington Gardens unveiled 1876 Statue of Albert John Henry Foley Albert Memorial Sir George Gilbert Scott
Prince Albert steps of the Royal Albert Hall 1863 Joseph Durham [2]
Ernest Shackleton Royal Geographical Society buildings, Exhibition Road side 1927–32

unveiled 1932

 Charles Sargeant Jagger [3]
David Livingstone Royal Geographical Society buildings, Kensington Gore side
Bust of Sir Clements Markham Royal Geographical Society, Kensington
Alfred Beit Bust Royal School of Mines, Kensington 1910 Paul Raphael Montford [2]
Julius Wernher Bust Royal School of Mines, Kensington 1910 Paul Raphael Montford [2]
War memorial Kensington Church Street, southern end
Baden Powell Queen's Gate 1961 Donald Potter
Charles Darwin Natural History Museum 1885 Joseph Boehm
Edward Jenner Kensington Gardens 1858 William Calder Marshall
Baron Napier of Magdala Queen's Gate, Kensington Sir Joseph Boehm
Cardinal Newman Brompton Oratory
Peter Pan Kensington Gardens 1911 Sir George Frampton
"Physical Energy" Kensington Gardens 1907 G. F. Watts
Twelve Faces of Man Thurloe Place
Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland Holland Park
Queen Victoria Kensington Palace 1893 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
Volodymyr the Great Holland Park Ave 1988 Leonard Moll

References

  1. ^ "The Venus Fountain In Sloane Square Proposed For Listing". The Department for Culture, Media & Sport. 2006. http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/media_releases/2611.aspx. Retrieved 19 January 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c d Ben Weinreb, ed (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (Third ed.). pp. 866–876. ISBN 9781405049245. 
  3. ^ Charles Sargeant Jagger. Sculptor (1885-1934) - Your Archives Accessed 16 May 2010

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