William Grinsell Nicholl
William Grinsell Nicholl (1796–1871) was a 19th-century British architectural and monumental sculptor.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
The Oxford and Cambridge Club
St Georges Hall, Liverpool, from the southwest
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WIlliam Grinsell Nicholl. Date and photographer unknown
Life
He was born in Marylebone, London in 1796. In 1822 he attended the Royal Academy Schools.[1]
He exhibited in the Royal Academy from 1822 to 1861 and was highly respected. His studio was on Grafton Street East - off Totteham Court Road, London
Architectural Works
- London Customs House (1827) - entablature as part of rebuilding after partial collapse
- Portico and columns of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1830-1837) - under George Basevi and designed by Charles Lock Eastlake
- Bas-reliefs over windows at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in London (1838) - under Sir Robert Smirke
- Four lions at foot of stairs, Fitzwilliam Museum (1839)[3]
- Pediment of the Taylor Institute in Oxford (1846)[4]
- Pediment and columns of St George's Hall, Liverpool (1850) - under Charles Robert Cockerell
- Four lions at St George's Hall, Liverpool (1855)[5]
- Reredos at Waltham Abbey Church (1862)[6] under William Burges
- Lectern at Worcester College Chapel, Oxford University (1866)
Other Works
- Bust of Henry Sass (1820) -possibly as Nicholl's tutor
- Bust of George III (c.1822) copy of Jubilee Bust by Peter Turnerelli[7]
- Bust of John Law, Archdeacon of Rochester (1827), Chatham Parish Church[8]
- Bust of Philip Rundell (1827) now in Victoria and Albert Museum[9]
- Statue of Captain Cook (1844) Royal Academy
- Statue of Lord Cornwallis (1867), India Office
- Statue of Clive (1867) India Office
- Monument to Sir John Hippisley (1825) Temple Church, Inner Temple, London
- Monument to John Frewen-Turner (1829) Cold Overton, Leicestershire
- Monument to Henry Wootton (1830) at Minster, Kent
- Monument to Sir George Don (1832) originally in Garrison Church, Gibraltar, now in the Gibraltar Parliament
- Monument to Joseph Bonsor (1835) Great Bookham, Surrey
- Monument to Elizabeth Morley (1837) Walthamstow Parish Church[10]
- Monument to Richard Stevenson (MP) (1837) Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge
- Monument to Rev J. Murray (1862) St Andrews Church, Wells Street, London
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Family
He married Emma Elizabeth Nicholson in Paddington in 1821.
References
- https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1246023398
- Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis
- Architectural History of Cambridgevol3 p.210
- Builder (journal) 1846 p.505
- https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/31-liverpool-statues-true-stories-16523938
- Builder (journal) 1862 p.499
- http://www.historicalportraits.com/Gallery.asp?Page=Item&ItemID=1251&Desc=King-George-III-%7C-William-Grinsell-Nicholl
- http://www.speel.me.uk/sculpt/nicholl.htm
- http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O75477/philip-rundell-1743-1827-bust-nicholl-william-grinsell/
- https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol6/pp285-294
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