C. J. Allen (sculptor)

Charles John Allen (2 September 1862[1] – 1956) was a British sculptor, and a figure in the New Sculpture movement.

Biography

Born in Greenford, Middlesex,[2] Allen studied at the Lambeth School of Art[3] and then apprenticed with the London architectural sculpture firm Farmer & Brindley in 1879,[2] becoming the assistant to Hamo Thornycroft for four years. In 1894 Allen moved to Liverpool, where he spent more than thirty years as a respected teacher at the University of Liverpool and Vice-Principal at the Liverpool School of Architecture and Applied Arts,[2] which became the Liverpool School of Art in 1905.[3]

Allen died in 1956 at Farley Green, Albury, Surrey, where he had lived with his sister since the death of his wife, shortly after his retirement from teaching.[3]

Notable work
  • Victoria Monument, Liverpool
  • Frieze on the Dale Street side of Royal Insurance Building, Liverpool
  • Panels of the "Justice" frieze, St George's Hall
  • Panels of the "Liverpool" frieze, St George's Hall
  • Font at Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool

References
  1. "Allen, Charles John". Who's Who: 29. 1916.
  2. Speel, Bob. "Charles John Allen (1863-1956)". Bob Steel. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  3. "'Charles John Allen', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database. 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
  4. Sharples, Joseph; Pollard, Richard (2004). Liverpool. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0300102581. Retrieved February 4, 2013.
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