Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st baronet
1834–1890
Austrian sculptor. Studied at Leigh’s art academy, London, and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, 1848–51; worked in Paris, 1859–62; settled in London in 1862. His works mainly consisted of statuettes and statues (including William Makepeace Thackeray (1864) and Thomas Caryle (1875)), busts (including James Whistler, John Ruskin, Thomas Huxley, Herbert Spencer, and William Ewart Gladstone), and church and public monuments (including Benjamin Disraeli, Arthur Stanley, Francis Drake, and Arthur Wellesley (the duke of Wellington)). He received over forty royal commissions from Queen Victoria and became tutor to her daughter Princess Louise. Created baronet, 1889.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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