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Matthew Noble

Matthew Noble (23 March 1817 – 23 June 1876) was a leading British portrait sculptor. Carver of numerous monumental figures and busts including work, memorializing Victorian era royalty and statesmen, displayed in locations such as Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral and Parliament Square, London.[1]

Matthew Noble
Noble pictured in
The Illustrated London News,
8 July 1876
Born23 March 1817
Hackness, Yorkshire, England
Died23 June 1876(1876-06-23) (aged 59)
Kensington, London, England
NationalityBritish
Known forSculpture

Life

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Noble was born in Hackness, near Scarborough, as the son of a stonemason, and served his apprenticeship under his father. He left Yorkshire for London when quite young, there he studied under John Francis (the father of sculptor Mary Thornycroft). Exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy from 1845 until his death, Noble became recognised after winning the competition to construct the Wellington Monument in Manchester in 1856.

Noble created a large body of work including portrait busts, statues and monuments. The deaths of two his sons, including Herbert (himself a promising sculptor, who was killed, aged 19, in the Abbots Ripton rail accident) are said to have contributed to Noble's own early death, aged 58, in June of the same year.[2] He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, on the west side of the main entrance path from the north, towards the central colonnade.[3] His uncompleted works were finished by his assistant Joseph Edwards, who also discarded the studio's plaster models.[2]

Selected works

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1845-1849

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More images 		George Hudson National Railway Museum, York 1847 Bust Marble [4]
  William Smith Oxford University Museum of Natural History 1848 Bust Marble [5]
  John Philips Oxford University Museum of Natural History 1849 Bust Marble [6]


1850-1859

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
 
More images 		Robert Peel Market Street, Tamworth, Staffordshire 1853 Statue on pedestal Bronze Grade II Q26491486 [7]
 
More images 		Robert Peel Concert Hall of St George's Hall, Liverpool 1853 Statue in alcove Marble [8]
  Captain Edmund Moubray Lyons St Paul's Cathedral, London After 1855 Curved relief panel Marble [9]
  Archbishop Harcourt York Minster 1855 Effigy on altar tomb Marble
77th Regiment of Foot Crimean War memorial St Paul's Cathedral, London 1856 Plaque Marble [10]
 
More images 		Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester 1856 Statue on pedestal with supporting figures Bronze and granite Grade II Q26561101 [11][12][13]
 
More images 		Queen Victoria The Crescent, Salford 1857 Statue on pedestal Limestone Grade II Q26665923 [11][14]
  Joseph Brotherton Peel Park, Salford 1858 Statue on pedestal Bronze and stone [15]
 
More images 		James George Smith Neill Wellington Square, Ayr, and Madras, India [16] 1859 Statue on pedestal with plaques Bronze and stone Category B Q17838465 [17]


1860-1869

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
  Mountstuart Elphinstone Crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London After 1859 Statue Stone [18]
 
More images 		Archbishop Musgrave York Minster 1860 Effigy on altar tomb
 
More images 		Marquess of Anglesey's Column Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Anglesey 1860 Statue on column Brass statue 12 foot statue on 100 ft column Grade II* Q17742135 Column architect, Thomas Harrison.[11][19][20]
 
More images 		Admiral Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons St Paul's Cathedral, London 1862 Statue on pedestal Marble [21][22]
 
More images 		Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet Westminster Abbey, London 1863 Bust on pedestal with supporting figures Marble [23][24]
 
More images 		Robert Bentley Todd King's College Hospital, London 1863 Statue on pedestal Marble Relocated 1913[25]
  Albert, Prince Consort The Crescent, Salford 1864 Statue on pedestal Limestone Grade II [11][26]
 
More images 		Albert, Prince Consort Albert Square, Manchester 1862-1865 Statue on pedestal with spired canopy Marble statue Grade I Q50281233 Canopy by Thomas Worthington[27][28]
  Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton Wellington Square, Ayr 1865 Statue on pedestal Bronze and stone Category B Q17838485 [29]
 
More images 		Sir John Franklin Waterloo Place, London 1866 Statue on pedestal with relief panels Bronze and granite Grade II Q26319141 [11][30]
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland Cliveden, Buckinghamshire 1866 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II [31]
 
More images 		George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland Near Dunrobin Castle railway station, Golspie, Scotland 1866 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Category B Q17829346 [32][33]
 
More images 		Sir Peter Fairbairn Woodhouse Square, Leeds 1868 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II Q26547184 [11][34]
 
More images 		Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Market Place, Romsey 1868 Statue on pedestal Bronze and pink marble Grade II Q26525831 [11][35]


1870 and later

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Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
 
More images 		Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet Victoria Embankment Gardens, London 1871 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II Q20054478 [11][36][37]
  Sir James Ramsden Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness 1872 Statue on pedestal Bronze and granite Grade II [11][38]
Harriet Howard, 2nd Duchess of Sutherland Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Scotland 1872 Bust in canopy with spire Bronze and granite Category B [39][40]
  Queen Victoria St Thomas' Hospital, London 1873 Seated statue on pedestal Marble and stone Q93424107 [41][42]
  Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Miller Park, Preston 1873 Statue on pedestal Marble and granite 7.3m tall Grade II [43]
 
More images 		Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Parliament Square, London 1874 Statue on pedestal with relief panels Bronze and granite Grade II Q18116483 [11][44][45]
 
More images 		George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen Westminster Abbey, London 1874 Bust Marble [46]
 
More images 		Sir John Franklin Westminster Abbey, London 1875 Bust and surround Marble and alabaster [47]
 
More images 		Oliver Cromwell Wythenshawe Hall, Manchester 1875 Statue on roughly-hewn pedestal and base Bronze and granite Grade II Q26546639 [11][48][49]
  Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham Lister Park, Bradford 1875 Statue on pedestal with reliefs Marble, granite and bronze Grade II [11][50]
 
More images 		Robert Peel Parliament Square, London 1876 Statue on pedestal Bronze and red granite Grade II Q19277831 [11][51]
  Bishop Thomas Carr St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai


Church monuments and memorials

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Throughout his career Noble was responsible for creating a number of monuments and memorials for British churches and cathedrals. Examples include

 
Memorial to Lady Vanden Bempde-Johnstone in the Chancel of the Church of St Peter, Hackness

Other works

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David Napier, 1871

References

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