Joseph Durham Ara

Place: London

Born: 1814

Death: 1877

Biography:

Joseph Durham ARA (1814 – 27 October 1877) was an English sculptor. He was born in London and around 1827 he was apprenticed to John Francis. He later worked in the studio of E. H. Baily for three years, and exhibited his first piece of sculpture in the Royal Academy in 1835. He is known for his busts of Jenny Lind (1848) and of Queen Victoria (1856), as well as for the Memorial to the Exhibition of 1851 and a statue of Sir Francis Crossley. He was also commissioned to create a statue of the Duke of Buccleuch's younger brother – John Douglas Montagu Douglas Scott. Durham was a successful competitor for the memorial of the International Exhibition in the Horticultural Gardens at South Kensington.