Bertram Mackennal

The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Auguste Rodin is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Bertram Mackennal is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Tate, Victoria Memorial, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Collection Sports Heritage NOC*NSF. Distinctions recorded are Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.

• Name — Sir Bertram Mackennal • Birth Name — Edgar Bertram Mackennal • Born — 12 June 1863 • Birthplace — Melbourne, Australia • Died — 10 October 1931 • Place of death — Watcombe Hall, near Torquay, UK • Known for — Sculptor • Training — Melbourne National Gallery • Awards — KCVO

• Illustration — Sir William John Clarke, Melbourne (1901) • Illustration — Boer War Memorial, Highbury Fields, Islington (1903) • Illustration — King Edward VII, Melbourne (1920) • Illustration — The Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney (1929) • Illustration — Diana Wounded, Tate Gallery (1908) • Five Foolish Virgins, relief, (exhibited 1886) • Sculptured reliefs, Parliament House, Melbourne (installed 1887) • Louis Buvelot, bust, National Gallery of Victoria (1892) • Head of a Saint, (1892), marble bust, exhibited at Paris Salon (1892), single bronze relief also in existence from 1892. https: web.archive.org/web/20161027055328/http: postimg.org/image/yla0thbq3/ • Circe, bronze figure, National Gallery of Victoria (exhibited 1893) • Sarah Bernhardt, bust (1893), exhibited at the Paris Salon of (1894) • Truth, bronze statuette, Art Gallery of New South Wales (1894) * • Illustration — Glory (1905), Boer War Memorial, Highbury Fields, London. Detail showing the globe of the broken and missing figure of Victory in right hand For She Sitteth on a Seat in the High Places of the City (Rahab), location unknown, (exhibited 1895) • Figure over doorway, Mercantile Chambers, Collins Street, Melbourne • Pediment, New Government Offices, Whitehall, Westminster, London (1898) • Dame Nellie Melba, bust, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London (1899) • Queen Victoria, seated bronze, the British Embassy gardens, Bangkok (1900) • Queen Victoria, statues, Ballarat, Lahore and Blackburn (c.1901) • Oceania, Union, University & Schools Club, Sydney • Springthorpe Memorial, sculptures, Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew, (1901) • Sir William John Clarke, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne (1901) • Boer War Memorial, (Victory), entrance to Highbury Fields, Islington (1903) • The Dancer, bronze life-size statue, Art Gallery of New South Wales (1904) • War (Bellona or Victory), Sculpture Garden, Australian War Memorial, Canberra (sculpted 1906) • Memorial to Sir Peter Nicol Russell, East Finchley Cemetery, London and University of Sydney (1906–09) • The Earth and the Elements (marble group), Tate Gallery (exhibited 1907) • Sir William Howard Russell, bust, The Crypt, St Paul's Cathedral, London (1907) • Olympic Games Medals, London, 1908 • Diana Wounded, bronze, Tate Gallery (purchased 1908) • King George V coinage and medals (signed BM) and postage stamps (1910) • Tomb for Edward VII (with Edward Lutyens), St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (commissioned 1910) • National Memorial to Thomas Gainsborough, Sudbury, Suffolk • Apollo, Taplow Court, Buckinghamshire. • King George V, marble portrait statue, formerly situated at the Flower Bazaar Police Station, Madras, now at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi (1916) • King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue mounted on archway, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta (1916) • King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue, Queen Victoria Gardens, Melbourne (unveiled 1920) • King Edward VII, bronze statue (and associated figures), Adelaide (unveiled 1920) • King Edward VII, bronze equestrian statue, Waterloo Place London (1921) • Parliamentary War Memorial, London • War Memorial, Corporation Park, Blackburn, Lancashire (1922) • War Memorial, Cliveden House, Buckinghamshire, England • Here I Am figure for Eton College War Memorial (now at National Gallery of Victoria) (1923) • Phoebus Driving the Horses of the Sun, Australia House, The Strand, London, (installed 1923) • 1914–1918 War Memorial Mother Courage, Caledonian Club, Belgravia, London (unveiled 1923 by Vice President, Field Marshal Earl Haig, with Sir Bertram in attendance.) • Cardinal Moran and Archbishop Kelly, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney • Shakespeare Memorial, Shakespeare Place, Sydney (1926) • The Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney (1929) • Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston, tomb effigy at All Saints' church, Kedleston, Derbyshire (1913) • George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, monument, All Saints' church, Kedleston (1931) • Marquess Curzon, statue, Carlton House Terrace, London • Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, Port Said (1931) (now at Mount Clarence, Albany, Western Australia)

Bertram Mackennal is recorded as having received Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.