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PANEL OF WALL STAIRCASE IN MR. GEOFFREY DUVEEN’s HOUSE. DESIGNED AND CARVED BY T. STIRLING LEE

delay on the part of the Corporation caused the
young sculptor much early disappointment, and
though he was allowed to finish part of his work,

Except the late Mr. Sidney Cooper, who was
98 when he died in 1902, Mr. James Sant, who
died in London on July 12 at the age of 96, was

he died without seeing his
life’s task completed. Two
of his finest early works are
Adam and Eve finding the
Dead Body of Abel and Cain
exhibited in the Royal Aca-
demy in 1881. He has done
a good many portrait busts
of notable people, amongst
others Sir Frank Short’s
daughter and Miss Kitty
Shannon, besides numerous
“ ideal ” busts. He was one
of the very few who carved
direct in the marble, from
life. The later period of his
art has been largely devoted
to ecclesiastical work, an
excellent example of which
is his altar-piece in
Westminster Cathedral, and
he quite recently completed
another altar-piece showing
the Wise Men of the East,
in which his love of symbo-
lism found expression. As
a sculptor Mr. Lee’s work
was very individual. He
was greatly attracted by the
Early Greeks, and he was
a born carver, with a strong


sense of pattern.

SKETCH MODEL FOR PANEL IN ST. GEORGE’S HALL, LIVERPOOL, BY T. STIRLING LEE

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