Charles Leonard Hartwell (1 August 1873 – 12 January 1951) was an English

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and

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Life

Hartwell was born in

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, in 1873. He attended the City and Guilds School in

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and won a silver medal for sculpture. From 1896 he attended the

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and won silver and bronze medals. He also received private tuition from the sculptors

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and

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. From 1900 he exhibited at the

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; he was elected Associate of the Royal Academy in 1915 and a Member of the Royal Academy in 1925. In 1929 he won the

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' silver medal for the sculpture 'The Goatherd's Daughter'. He lived in London and later at

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. He died in 1951.

Works

*St Mary-le-bone War Memorial,

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Roundabout,

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, London NW8: an equestrian St George in the act of dragon-slaying with two relief panels on the stone plinth showing 'Peace' and 'Justice'. Hartwell took on the commission in 1923 after

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had withdrawn. Another version at Eldon Square,

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. *''The Goatherd's Daughter'', St John's Lodge garden,

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, London: first exhibited in 1929 and erected on this site in 1931 by the National Council for Animal Welfare, in honour of its founders, Harold and Gertrude Baillie-Weaver. *Memorial to Admiral

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, London: memorial with bust and reliefs, 1932 *

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; it stands today outside the Perak Museum. *1904 Bronze Sculpture of a sergeant sounding the charge at

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"The Bugler" surmounting The

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Memorial, Regency Square Brighton.Brighton Herald dated 5 November 1904,p7 accessed 27 December 2020

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