WEST'MACOTT. A family of distinguished English sculptors.—Sir RICHARD WESTMACOTT (1775-1856), the first to attain eminence, was the son and pupil of Richard Westmacutt, also a sculptor. In 1793 his father sent him to Rome, where he received his actual artistic training from Canova, carrying off the gold medal of the Academy of Saint Luke with his bas-relief of "Joseph and His Brethren." In the same year (1795) he was made a member of the Florentine _Academy. Returning to Loudon in 1797, he was in 1811 elected Academician. and in 1827 succeeded Flaxman as professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy. His commissions in cluded, besides public works in England, a number for India and the colonies. Among the most important were the statues of Addison, Pitt, Fox, and Percival in Westmin ster: the monuments to Abercromby, Coiling Wood. Captain Cook, and General Pakenham in Saint Paul's; a colossal bronze statue of Achilles in Hyde Park, after the original on Monte Ca vallo at Home; and the statue of the Duke of York on the column in Waterloo Place. One of his latest works was the pediment groups repre senting the "Progress of executed for the British Museum (1947). In 1937 he was
knighted. After retiring from his profession he continued to lecture mild 1554. and died in Lon don, September 1, 1856.
Isis ,on and pupil, PaCIIARD WEsTMACOTT (1799-1972), horn in London, was also a sculptor, After .ludying at the Royal Academy from 1S20 to 1526 he resided in Italy. devoting himself to ancient sculpture and its history. His earliest works, exhibited at the Royal Academy. were ideal figures, but from 1940 until 1955, when he retired from his profession, he was principally engaged in monumental and in por trait busts like those of John Henry Newman, Lord Russell, Sir Roderick Sfurchis?in.. and others. From 1857 to 1867 he was professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy, in which office he succeeded his father. Westmacott was also well known as a writer and lecturer on art sub jects, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1837. Iie was the author of the Hand book of Ancient and Modern Sculpture (1864) .