Timothy Butler (sculptor)

Timothy Butler (1806–1885) was a 19th-century British figurative sculptor.

The lamps on the Embankment

His most noteworthy public works are the dolphin lamps lining the Thames Embankment which date from 1870 and were the first lights to be electrified (1878).[1]

Life

He was born in Caversham in Oxfordshire in 1806. He won a silver medal at the Society of Arts in 1824. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1825 at the recommendation of William Behnes. He won the Royal Academy's silver medal in 1827.[2]

He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1828 until 1879.[3]

Around 1850 he tutored John Adams-Acton.

From 1851 he lived at 1 Middlesex Place in London. From 1860 he lived at Marylebone Road.

He died at 186 Euston Road near St Pancras in London on 6 September 1885

Family

His daughter Clehorow Caroline Butler was also a sculptor.

Works
Edward Turner chemist

Graves
Jackson's burial monument, Brompton

References
  1. https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1202169341
  2. Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis
  3. https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00029584
  4. Art Union 1842 p.128
  5. https://londonist.com/2016/03/london-s-most-interesting-lions
  6. https://mediafiles.thedms.co.uk/Publication/YS-Brad/cms/pdf/Bradford%20SculptureTrail%20walk.pdf
  7. https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/art/turner-edward-1798-1837
  8. https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/person/butler-timothy/
  9. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/book/modern-tombs-gleaned-from-the-public-cemeteries-of-london-measured-drawn/marc
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