Timothy Butler (sculptor)

The lamps on the Embankment

Timothy Butler (1806–1885) was a 19th-century British figurative sculptor.

His most noteworthy public works are the dolphin lamps lining the Thames Embankment which date from 1870 and were the first lights to be electrified (1878).[1]

  1. ^ "Timothy Butler - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951". sculpture.gla.ac.uk.