Bell, John

has biography | a une biographie: British sculptor in the nineteenth century.

Bell produced a number of sculptures representing enslaved women during his career, including A Daughter of Eve - A Scene on the Shore of the Atlantic (1853), The Octoroon (1868), and Manacled Slave / On the Sea Shore (1877). Although Bell presented his abolitionist sympathies in these sculptures, his works have also been critiqued for commodifying the Black female body through allusions to the notion of illicit sexuality.
was born | est né: 1812
died in | est mort par: 1895
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: artist
was influenced by | a été influencé par: Powers, Hiram

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; The Victorian Web; PSSA; Art UK; National Trust Collections - 'A Daughter of Eve - A Scene on the Shore of the Atlantic'; Henry Moore Foundation - The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture; Caitlin Meehye Beach, Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022); Cora Gilroy-Ware, 'Repairing the Sable Venus', in Entangled Pasts, 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change (London: Royal Academy, 2024) 28-38

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Williamson, Francis John

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Albert Memorial
Statue of Oliver Cromwell, Warrington
Statue of Victory, Royal Artillery Barracks