Bell, JOHN

Bell, JOHN, sculptor, was born at Hopton, Suffolk, in 1811, and exhibited at the Royal Academy as early as 1832, but first became well known by his figure of 'Dorothea' (1841). Among his subsequent works have been statues of Lord Falkland (1847) and Sir Robert Walpole (1854), for the new Houses of Parliament, the Guards' Memorial (1858) in Waterloo Place, and the America group in the Hyde Park Albert Memorial (1873), a replica of which, in terra-cotta, is at Washington. To Bell is due the fashion of carved wooden bread-trenchers. He died in March 1895.