Edwin Roscoe Mullins

Edwin Roscoe Mullins
Born22 August 1848
Holborn, London
Died9 January 1907(1907-01-09) (aged 58)
Walberswick, Suffolk
NationalityBritish
EducationMarlborough College
Alma mater
  • Lambeth School of Art
  • Royal Academy Schools
Known forSculpture

Edwin Roscoe Mullins (22 August 1848- 9 January 1907) was a British sculptor known for a number of architectural sculptures and smaller works featuring neo-classical figures.[1]

Biography[edit]

Mullins was born at Holborn in central London and attended Lough Grammar School and, from 1863 to 1865, Marlborough College in Wiltshire.[2] He trained at the Lambeth School of Art before studying at the Royal Academy Schools from 1967.[3] In 1868 he won a gold medal in the National Art Competition for a model from the antique.[3] Mullins was sponsered at the Royal Academy Schools by the sculptor John Birnie Philip and subsequently worked for him as an assistant before moving to Munich where he studied under Michael Wagmüller and also shared a studio with Edward Onslow Ford.[3][4] In 1872 he won a silver medal at Munich and a bronze at Vienna for his work Sympathy.[2]

Mullins returned to London around 1874. There, he created sculptures of neo-classical figures and portrait busts and statuettes and was, for a time, associated with the New Sculpture movement.[3] He became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery and in 1884 he was elected to the Art Workers Guild.[2][3] He also exhibited with the Society of British Artists, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at Manchester City Art Gallery.[5] Mullins also received a number of public commissions and at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris was awarded a silver medal.[5] In 1890 he published A Primer of Sculpture and was appointed as an instructor in modelling for architecture at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1897.[3][5] He died in 1907 at Walberswick in Suffolk.[1]

Selected public works[edit]

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes

More images 		Untitled Gallions Hotel, Newham 1881-83 Frieze Plaster Grade II* Q17553250 [6]
Major General Lousada Barrow Uttar Pradesh State Museum, Lucknow 1882 Statue Marble [4]
Henry VII of England Scott's Building, King's College, Cambridge 1883 Statue in niche Stone Grade II [2][7]
School of Athens Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston 1886 Sculptural pediment Stone Grade I Q12059583 [3][8]
William Barnes St Peter's Church, Dorchester, Dorset 1888 Statue on pedestal Bronze and stone Grade II Q26412421 [9][10]
Tomb of John Frederick Ginnett Woodvale Cemetery, Brighton 1893 Tomb on plinth with equine statue Granite & Portland stone Grade II Q26661769 Ginnett was a circus owner.[3][11][12]
Study, Religion, Recreation, Health, Music Croydon Town Hall 1896 Five decorative relief panels Stone Grade II Q26483913 [2]
Cain Glasgow Botanic Gardens c. 1899 Statue Marble

More images 		Queen Victoria Port Elizabeth, South Africa Unveiled 1903 Statue on pedestal Marble Q36692437 Commissioned for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, unveiled in 1903 and subject to a paint attack in 2010.[13][14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0902028553.
  2. ^ a b c d e S.E. Fryer & Emma Hardy (23 September 2004). "Mullins, Edwin Roscoe". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35146. Retrieved 1 July 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Susan Beattie (1983). The New Sculpture. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press. ISBN 0300033591.
  4. ^ a b Mary Ann Steggles & Richard Barnes (2011). British Sculpture in India: New Views & Old Memories. Frontier Publishing. ISBN 9781872914411.
  5. ^ a b c "Mullins, Edwin Roscoe". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00127561. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  6. ^ Historic England. "Gallions Hotel (1376224)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
  7. ^ Historic England. "King's College, Scott's Building (1145818)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  8. ^ Historic England. "Harris Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery (1207306)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  9. ^ Jo Darke (1991). The Monument Guide to England and Wales. Macdonald Illustrated. ISBN 0-356-17609-6.
  10. ^ Historic England. "Monument to William Barnes in Churchyard immediately south of West Tower (1119032)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  11. ^ Lydia Figes (3 April 2019). "Eleven public sculptures to see in Brighton". Art UK. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
  12. ^ Historic England. "Woodvale Cemetery Tomb of John Frederick Ginnett (1381672)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  13. ^ Martina Droth, Jason Edwards & Michael Hatt (2014). Sculpture Victorious: Art in the Age of Invention, 1837-1901. Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300208030.
  14. ^ "Statue of Queen Victoria 1903". Yale Centre for British Art. Retrieved 18 July 2022.

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