3-070-964 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New Associate of the Royal Academy: Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, A.R.A., 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Charles Watkins. 'Hamo Thornycroft...is the son of Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Mary Thornycroft, both sculptors well known to the public...In 1868 he commenced studying art in the British Museum, and in the following year became a student of the Royal Academy, where...he gained two silver medals for sculpture in the Antique school. Two years later he again carried off two silver medals in the Life school. One of these was for drawing - an award that has seldom, if ever, been won by a sculptor. A good deal of time was thereafter spent in his father's studio assisting in the execution of some large public works. In 1871 he visited several of the galleries of Italy, and the same year modelled a bust of Professor Sharpey, which now stands in University College, and was the first work he exhibited at Burlington House...In 1875 he gained the gold medal and scholarship at the Academy for the group "A Warrior and Wounded Youth," which appeared in the next year's Exhibition...Then followed the marble group "Stepping Stones," executed for Mr. David Wallace, of Glassingall, Perthshire'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.