Robert Glassby

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Robert Edward Glassby (* probably 1870 in London ; † November 19, 1908 there ) was an English sculptor .

Life

Robert Glassby was the son of his father of the same name, who was also a sculptor. He must have enjoyed his at least initial training with his father, nothing is known about the further training path. Glassby completed his father's last work, a bust of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse commissioned by Queen Victoria for the royal mausoleum in Frogmore near Windsor Castle . There are also two angel statuettes on the tomb of Heinrich Moritz von Battenberg in Wippingham Church on the Isle of Wight .

In the Vienna Museum of Military History there is a statuette of a guard dragon in parade adjustment by Robert Glassby. These were a gift of honor of the British Royal Guard Regiment to the owner of the regiment, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary .

Works (excerpt)

  • Statuette Gardedragoner in parade adjustment , 1898, gilded bronze , 12 × 9.5 × 43 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna

literature

  • Ilse Krumpöck: The sculptures in the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 55.
  • Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1921, Volume 14, p. 242.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: Die Bildwerke im Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna 2004, p. 55.
  2. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Leipzig 1920, Volume 14, p. 242.
personal data
SURNAME Glassby, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Glassby, Robert Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1908
Place of death London