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John Birnie Philip (London 23 November 1824 – 2 March 1875 London) was a nineteenth-century English sculptor. Much of his work was carried out for the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. ==Life== He was born in London, the son of William and Elizabeth Philip. He studied at the Government School of Design at Somerset House in London under John Rogers Herbert, and then at Herbert's own newly-opened school in Maddox Street. He went on to work in Pugin's wood carving workshop at the Palace of Westminster before setting up his own studio. Much of his work was carried out for the Gothic Revival architect Sir George Gilbert Scott. At St Michael, Cornhill, in the City of London, he carved the decorations for the porch built by Scott as part of his Gothic embellishment of Wren's church. They included an elaborate tympanum sculpture depicting ''St Michael disputing with Satan'',〔 which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1858, his first work to be shown there.〔 He did further carvings for the interior of the building. As part of Scott's restoration of St Mary's chapel at Sudeley Castle, Philip made a font and reredos, and a white marble effigy for the canopied tomb of Catherine Parr. The effigy was shown – unfinished – at the Royal Academy in 1859.〔 In 1863–64 Scott commissioned him, along with Henry Hugh Armstead (1828–1905), to make the podium frieze (known as the ''Frieze of Parnassus'') on the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens. Philip carved the images of architects (including Scott himself) on the west side of the monument, and those of the sculptors on the north. As well as his work on the frieze, he modelled the bronze allegorical statues of ''Geometry'', ''Philosophy'', ''Geology'' and ''Physiology'' for niches on the western side of the canopy, and the gilt metal angels on the spire. At the time of the commission, Philip and Armstead were little known compared to the other sculptors working on the memorial.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47524 )〕〔(John Birnie Philip (1824-1875) )〕 Elsewhere in London, he produced allegorical figures (including ''Art'', ''Law'' and ''Commerce'') for the front of Scott's Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Whitehall, eight figures of monarchs for the Royal Gallery in the Palace of Westminster (1868–69), a "young woman in classical drapery floating forward on a small cloud" on a drinking fountain in West Smithfield Square (1870) and the decorations, depicting plants and birds, on the Portland stone capitals of the piers of Blackfriars Bridge. In 1874, the year before his death, he was paid £312 for carving "the Relievos etc." on the entrance porch at the Royal Academy's Burlington House〔From: 'Burlington House', Survey of London: volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster, Part 2 (1963), pp. 390-429. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=41482. Date accessed: 6 November 2006〕 His works in churches and cathedrals include the reredoses for Ely Cathedral, St. George's Chapel, Windsor〔 and Lichfield Cathedral, decorative work at Wakefield Cathedral, the tomb of Dean Lyall in Canterbury Cathedral and the tomb of Lt Col Willoughby Moore in York Minster. Often commissioned to make commemorative municipal works, Philip produced a bust of Richard Cobden for the Halifax Chamber of Commerce (1867),〔 a statue of the humanitarian Richard Oastler, now situated in Northgate, Bradford, and one of the Reverend Robert Hall in De Montfort Square, Leicester. His last work was the statue of Colonel Akroyd, M.P., erected at Halifax.〔 His apprentices included Thomas Stirling Lee. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Birnie Philip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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