James Legrew
Born 2 November 1803 (Circa)
Died 15 September 1857
Active: 1830 - 1856
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Caterham, Surrey (birthdate unknown, only date of his baptism). Legrew studied under Sir Francis Chantrey and at the Royal Academy Schools. He committed suicide after becoming depressed on the death of his father (James Legrew, rector) in 1856.
Works
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Cupid stung by a Bee, complains to Venus
1851
Musidora
1851
The Mirror
1855
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
p.53
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
L. H. Cust, ‘Legrew, James (1803–1857)’, rev. Jason Edwards, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16365, accessed 25 July 2009]
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
1855
p.53
Citing this record
'James Legrew', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib7_1206633227, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
