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6 unusual facts about Art Union of London


Alfred Gatley

That year he sent a marble bust of "Hebe" to the Royal Academy, which was purchased by the Art Union of London and reproduced in bronze.

Charles Bell Birch

He won a significant prize of 600 pounds in an open competition in 1864 from the Art Union of London for his marble work The Wood Nymph, which was judged to be the "best original figure or group".

Charles Henry Jeens

In 1863 Jeens completed for the Art Union of London a plate begun by Henry Chawner Shenton from Thomas Francis Dicksee's A Labour of Love; and one of his final works was Joseph and Mary, after Edward Armitage, published by the same society in 1877.

Charles West Cope

In 1849 he exhibited a painting 'The First-born' which was subsequently engraved for the Art Union of London.

Leonard Charles Wyon

In 1854 he engraved the 'William Wyon Laudatory Medal', in memory of his father, for the Art Union of London.

Mason Jackson

In the middle of the 19th century he made a considerable reputation by his engravings for the Art Union of London, and for Knight’s Shakespeare and other standard books.



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