School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

John Bell

Born: 1812, UK, England, Suffolk, Hopton   Died: 1895, London

Sculptor. Trained at the Royal Academy Schools from 1829 where he exhibited from 1832 to 1879. Some of his figures were commercially reproduced in porcelain by Mintons. One of his most famous pieces 'Eagle Slayer', 1937, was exhibited in the Great Exhibition of 1851. His later work included many allegorical and genre groups

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Manacled Slave/On the Sea Shore? Be39




 
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