Boehm, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR

Boehm, SIR JOSEPH EDGAR, sculptor, was born in Vienna, July 6, 1834. He was educated from 1848-51 in England, and finally settled there in 1862. He had previously gained the first imperial prize in Vienna in 1856, and his work soon attracted notice in the country of his adoption. In 1867 he executed a colossal statue of the Queen, and afterwards received commissions for statues or busts of a large number of distinguished personages. Of the seated statue of Thomas Carlyle, enthusiastically praised by Mr Ruskin in his Royal Academy Notes, 1875, a replica was erected at Chelsea. His animal studies are also noteworthy. Boehm was elected a member of the Academy of Florence in 1875, an A.R.A. in 1878, and a member of the Academy of Rome in 1880. He was nominated in 1881 sculptor-in-ordinary to the Queen, and was made an R.A. in 1882, a baronet in 1889. The Queen's effigy on the coinage issued in 1887 was from his designs. He died 12th December 1890.