1. Richard Westmacott had his own foundry at Pimlico, in London, where he cast both his own works, and those of other sculptors, including John Flaxman's statue of Sir John Moore for Glasgow.
11 Facts About Richard Westmacott
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Richard Westmacott had an arrangement with the Trustees of the British Museum, which allowed him to make moulds and supply plaster casts of classical sculpture in the museum's collection to country house owners, academies and other institutions.
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Richard Westmacott exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1797 and 1839.
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Richard Westmacott was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1805, and a full academician in 1811.
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Richard Westmacott was professor of sculpture at the academy from 1827 until his death.
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In 1852 when contacted by the Corporation of London about a possible sculpture commission, Richard Westmacott replied that he had not been active as a sculptor for some years.
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In Liverpool there is an equestrian statue of King George III sculpted by Richard Westmacott, which was unveiled in 1822.
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Richard Westmacott was responsible for the statue of the agriculturalist and developer Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford in Russell Square, and the one of the Duke of York on top of the column in Waterloo Place.
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Richard Westmacott sculpted the memorials to William Pitt the Younger, Spencer Perceval, Charles James Fox and Joseph Addison in Westminster Abbey; the statue of Fox in Bloomsbury Square; and those to Sir Ralph Abercromby, Lord Collingwood and Generals Edward Pakenham and Samuel Gibbs in St Paul's Cathedral.
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Richard Westmacott created a sculptural group for the marble arch of the Cumberland Gate to Hyde Park.
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Richard Westmacott is buried in a tomb at St Mary's Church, Chastleton in Oxfordshire, where his third son Horatio was rector in 1878.