William Reid Dick

Sir William Reid Dick ( 1879 - 1961 ) was a Scottish Sculptor . Born in Glasgow , he became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1921, and a Royal Academician in 1928 . Dick served as president of the Royal Society Of British Sculptors from 1933 to 1938 . He was knighted by King George V in 1935 . He was Sculptor In Ordinary For Scotland to King George VI from 1938 until his death.

Dick was renowned during his lifetime as a sculptor of portrait statuary. The sculptures by Blackfriars Bridge (Unilever House) are his, as is the eagle on the Royal Air Force Monument on the Victoria Embankment . In Regent's Park is his ''Boy with Frog'' fountain ( 1936 ). He was also the sculptor of the imposing bronze statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in London's Grosvenor Square (facing the United States Embassy), the George V by the House Of Lords and another in Jersey , the John Soane statue at the Bank Of England , and the equestrian statue of Lady Godiva in Coventry , England.

His archives are held by the Tate Gallery .

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