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Robert William Sievier
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Robert William Sievier FRS (24 July 1794 – 28 April 1865) was a notable British engraver, sculptor and later inventor of the 19th century.
Sievier showed an early talent for drawing, and studied under John Young and Edward Scriven, before attending the Royal Academy Schools from 1818. His speciality was portrait engravings, though he also did other works, including subjects from William Etty (whose portrait he also engraved). By 1823, however, he had abandoned engraving for sculpture. His sculpture portrait subjects included Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Sir Thomas Lawrence (the latter work now in the Sir John Soane's Museum). His students included William F Woodington and Musgrave Watson.
Sievier exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1822 until 1844, and his output there included several busts, figure subjects, gravestones and monuments. His first studio was in London's Southampton Row; in 1837, he relocated to Henrietta Street, near Cavendish Square, and he had a separate residence in Upper Holloway.
statue of Charles Dibdin, at Greenwich
statue of Field Marshal William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt (St Andrew's, Clewer, and St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle)
a bust of Sir John Silvester in the Old Bailey
a bust/monument to Sir George Paul (1746–1820), prison reformer and county administrator – in the south aisle of Gloucester Cathedral
Portrait bust of Judge Robert Dallas (1756–1824) – produced in 1822
a pediment decorated with urns and a sculpture of Flora in Coade stone, along the Central Avenue of Covent Garden Market Hall
Statuette of Captain Thomas Coram, Foundling Hospital, London
figure of Edward Jenner (d. 1823), discoverer of smallpox vaccination, set on a pedestal beside the west door of Gloucester Cathedral.
chimney pieces at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (executed with Richard Westmacott (the younger), c.1840)
a monument to himself in Kensal Green Cemetery (Sievier had been a member of the Cemetery's board).
In 1837 he came third in the competition to design a monument to Nelson in Trafalgar Square, with a proposal devised jointly with the architect Charles Fowler.
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