Studio: international art (33.1905)

F. Derwent JVood

STONE FIGURE : " PRUDENCE"

BY F. DERWENT WOOD

with the results of this venture ; he was soon busy
with things which gave him plenty of scope for
the display of his capacities as a designer and
executant, and he made more than one success
in important competitions. As the outcome of
one of these competitions came a commission to
execute four statues for the Kelvingrove Art Gallery
at Glasgow; and besides he was responsible for a
series of figures for the adornment of the Central
Station in that city, for others for a large building
in Bothwell Street, and for busts of Lord Over-
toun and his sister, which have been placed in
the Bible Training Institute.
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After this excellent beginning at Glasgow he
quickly found opportunities of greatly extending
his sphere of activity; during the past seven years
he has, indeed, multiplied the evidences of his skill
in many directions. There must be noted his
statues of Queen Victoria, for Patiala, India; of
Sir Titus Salt, for Saltaire; and of the Rev. C. H.
Spurgeon, for the Baptist House in Southampton
Row; his busts of Queen Victoria and Queen
Alexandra, for the Cavalry Club, Piccadilly; of
Cecil Rhodes, for Pretoria, Johannesburg, and

BRONZE FOUNTAIN BY F. DERWENT WOOD