Alfred Drury

For other people with this name, see Alfred Drury (disambiguation).

Alfred Drury
Born11 November 1856
Islington, London
Died24 December 1944(1944-12-24) (aged 88)
Lancaster Lodge, Wimbledon, London
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forSculpture

Edward Alfred Briscoe Drury RA (11 November 1856 – 24 December 1944) was a British architectural sculptor and artist active in the New Sculpture movement. During a long career Drury created a great number of decorative figures such as busts and statuettes plus larger monuments, war memorials, statues of royalty and architectural pieces. During the opening years of the 20th-century he was among the foremost architectural sculptors active in Britain and in that period created the series of works in central London for which he is perhaps now best known. These include the figures on the Old War Office building in Whitehall, elements of the facade of the Victoria and Albert Museum and four of the colossal statues on Vauxhall Bridge.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Alfred Drury". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  2. ^ Susan Beattie (1983). The New Sculpture. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press. ISBN 0300033591.
  3. ^ Mark Quinlan (2007). Sculptors and Architects of Remembrance. Sandy, Authors Online. ISBN 978-0755203-98-7.