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John Evan Thomas

Thomas produced two of the life-sized bronze statues, depicting the fifteen barons and two bishops who signed the Magna Carta, which line the walls of the Lords' Chamber at the House of Lords and were cast in 1847−1851.


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A. Thomas Schomberg

In 1981, Sylvester Stallone commissioned Schomberg to create a bronze statue of Rocky.

Adrien d'Épinay

He married Marguerite Le Breton de la Vieuville on 14 April 1817 in Flacq, and was the father of the sculptor Prosper d'Épinay (1836–1914), whose greatest work was undoubtedly the bronze statue of Adrien d'Épinay, unveiled on 26 September 1866 in the French East India Company garden at Port-Louis.

African Renaissance Monument

Construction of the bronze statue group was carried out by the North Korean firm Mansudae Overseas Project Group of Companies.

Anouvong

In 2010, to coincide with the 450th Anniversary celebrations of Vientiane, the Lao government created the Chao Anouvong Park, complete with a large bronze statue of the locally revered King.

Aotea Square

In front of the Administration building is a 19th century bronze statue of George Eden, Lord Auckland, Governor of India, after whom the Auckland is named.

Bailey Howell

The bronze statue that is awarded each year was designed by J. Kim Sessums.

Benjamin Pierce Cheney

He donated $50,000 to Dartmouth College, and in 1886 he presented a bronze statue by Thomas Ball of his friend Daniel Webster to the people of New Hampshire; today it is located in front of the New Hampshire State House.

Bernborough

He is commemorated in the township of Oakey with a life size bronze statue located outside the Jondaryan Council chambers.

Bridge Street, Sydney

It includes the obelisk designed by Francis Greenway and constructed in 1818; the bronze statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort erected in 1883; the cannon and anchor from HMS Sirius, the anchor having been placed on its pedestal in 1907; and the men's lavatory built in 1908, which features stucco and a glazed dome.

Buddhism in Hong Kong

The Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island is famous for the outdoor bronze statue, Tian Tan Buddha, which attracts a large number of visitors during the weekends and holidays.

Carlos Valderrama

A 22-foot bronze statue of Valderrama, created by Colombian artist Amilkar Ariza, was erected outside Estadio Eduardo Santos in Valderrama's birthplace of Santa Marta in 2006.

Castel Sant'Angelo

Montelupo's statue was replaced by a bronze statue of the same subject, executed by the Flemish sculptor Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, in 1753.

Clydach, Swansea

There is a bronze statue of Ludwig Mond, commissioned after his death in 1909, amongst the daffodils opposite The Mond’s redbrick Edwardian entrance.

Cuban rock

A bronze statue of John Lennon has been placed in a Havana park.

Discovery Museum and Planetarium

To the right of the museum entrance is a cast bronze statue Los Portadores de la Antorcha ("The Torch Bearers") by Anna Hyatt Huntington.

East Budleigh

In 2006 a life-size bronze statue of Raleigh by sculptor Vivien Mallock was unveiled by the Duke of Kent and is positioned at the top of the village close to the church.

Helike

About 150 years after the disaster, the philosopher Eratosthenes visited the site and reported that a standing bronze statue of Poseidon was submerged in a "poros", "holding in one hand a hippocamp", where it posed a hazard to those who fished with nets.

Hidesaburō Ueno

A bronze statue commemorating the dog was set up in front of the Shibuya Station in 1934 a year before his death.

Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow

On 2 December 1832 then premier of Guyana, Dr. Donald Ramoutar gan, unveiled a bronze statue of Critchlow in the compound of the Parliament Building.

Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball

A bronze statue of Coach John Wooden by sculptor Blair Buswell will be dedicated when the newly renovated Pauley Pavilion reopens on October 26, 2012 and a men's basketball will be played at the UCLA arena between Indiana State and UCLA will be played on November 9, 2012.

Jasuben Shilpi

In her last days she was busy making a bronze statue of Amitabh Bachchan.

John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton

In November 1866 a bronze statue of Colborne sculpted by George Adams and financed by public donations was erected at Mount Wise at Devonport: it was moved to Seaton Barracks in Crownhill in the early 1960s and then to Peninsula Barracks in Winchester in the 1990s.

José María López Lledín

A bronze statue by the sculptor José Villa Soberón was made and placed in the sidewalk in front of the St. Francis convent.

Kossuth Memorial

Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl made a new bronze statue of Kossuth pointing towards a brighter future with a raised hand.

Marian and Holy Trinity columns

By the 17th century only this column survived; in 1614 it was transported to Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore and crowned with a bronze statue of the Virgin and Child.

Milwaukee Riverwalk

The Bronze Fonz, a bronze statue of the character Fonzie from the Happy Days television program is on the east side of the Milwaukee Riverwalk just south of Wells Street.

Mitsuo Fuchida

In the fall of 1948, Fuchida was passing by the bronze statue of Hachiko at the Shibuya Station when he was handed a pamphlet about the life of Jacob DeShazer, a member of the Doolittle Raid who was captured by the Japanese after his B-25 bomber ran out of fuel over occupied China.

MV Bianca C

A bronze statue of Christ of the Abyss was given by the Costa Line to Grenada in appreciation of the country's hospitality, and the statue stands in the Carenage surrounding the harbor at St. George's.

Nakaoka Shintarō

There is a large bronze statue of Nakaoka Shintarō at Murotomisaki lighthouse in Cape Muroto in his native Kochi Prefecture, and another (together with Sakamoto Ryōma) at Maruyama Park in Kyoto.

NorthRiver Yacht Club

It boasts several original Basil Ede prints, the largest bronze statue of an elephant in the world, and one of the world's largest brass chandeliers.

Odoardo Tabacchi

He also completed a larger than life marble, later bronze, statue of Arnaldo da Brescia, exhibited in Turin in 1880.

Pargadh

Apart from this, it is also known for housing a wonderful bronze statue of Shivaji and a temple of Bhagawati Bhawani.

Pedubast I

The richly inlaid torso from a bronze statue that originally depicted Pedubast I is today on permanent display in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal and is considered to be one of the great masterpieces of Egyptian Third Intermediate Period Art.

Primo Riccitelli

On 20 April 2006 a bronze statue was dedicated to Primo Riccitelli at the entrance to the cemetery in the small village of Sant'Onofrio located near his birthplace.

Prosper Mérimée

La Vénus d'Ille (1837) - a fantastic horror tale of a bronze statue that seemingly comes to life.

Ramon Revilla, Sr.

The 10-meter bronze statue was made by Filipino sculptor and national artist Eduardo Castrillo.

Rhodes Memorial

At the bottom of the steps is a bronze statue of a horseman, Energy by George Frederic Watts.

Sheppard-Worlock Statue

Half-way between the two cathedrals on Hope Street, they stopped to unveil a 15ft bronze statue designed by sculptor Stephen Broadbent honouring the work of Bishop David Sheppard and Archbishop Derek Worlock.

Thomas Heazle Parke

A bronze statue of Parke stands on Merrion Street in Dublin, outside the Natural History Museum.

Toyohira-ku, Sapporo

Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill - where visitors can view the scene of Sapporo City from the hill, also famous for the bronze statue of William S. Clark

Victor Huguenin

A bronze statue of Pasquale Paoli by Huguenin was erected in 1864 the center of the Place Paoli in Corte, Corsica.

Watts Warehouse

The bronze statue depicts the sentry wearing a Tommy helmet, World War I battle gear and a cape, standing on guard with his rifle with fixed bayonet upright, and was commissioned from the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger who also designed the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, London.

William Pepper

A bronze statue of Pepper by Karl Bitter stands on the south side of College Hall at the University of Pennsylvania.

Wimmis

Roman era artifacts were found at Engfeld and bronze statue of Emperor Gordian III was found at Tägerstein.

Zeugma, Commagene

A bronze statue of Mars, which aroused increased media interest in Zeugma, was found amongst storage jars in the larder of one of the villas.

Þrymskviða

A seated bronze statue of Thor (about 6.4 cm) known as the Eyrarland statue from about AD 1000 was recovered at a farm near Akureyri, Iceland and is a featured display at the National Museum of Iceland.