Matthew Noble

Matthew Noble (23 March 1817 – 23 June 1876) was a leading British portrait sculptor. Carver of numerous monumental figures and busts including work memorializing Victorian era royalty and statesmen displayed in locations such as Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral and in Parliament Square, London.[1]

Matthew Noble
Noble pictured in
The Illustrated London News,
8 July 1876
Born23 March 1817
Hackness, near Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
Died23 June 1876(1876-06-23) (aged 59)
Kensington, London
NationalityBritish
Known forSculpture
David Napier by Matthew Noble 1871
Noble's statue of Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet (1871), Whitehall Gardens, London
Matthew Noble's grave, Brompton Cemetery, London
Lady van den Bempde-Johnstone (d 1853) in the Chancel of the Church of St Peter, Hackness

Life

Noble was born in Hackness, near Scarborough, as the son of a stonemason, and served his apprenticeship under his father. He left Yorkshire for London when quite young, there he studied under John Francis (the father of sculptor Mary Thornycroft). Exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy from 1845 until his death, Noble became recognised after winning the competition to construct the Wellington Monument in Manchester in 1856.

Noble was exceptionally prolific and created portrait busts, statues and monuments. One of his sons, Herbert, also showed great promise as a sculptor. Herbert died, however, in January 1876, at the age of nineteen, in a railway accident at Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire. The loss of Herbert and another son is said to have contributed to Noble's early death, at the age of 58, from pleuropneumonia at his home, 43 Abingdon Villas, Kensington.[2] He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, on the west side of the main entrance path from the north, towards the central colonnade. His uncompleted works were finished by his assistant, J. Edwards.

Selected works

Notes
  1. Robinson, Leonard (2007). William Etty: The Life and Art. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 418. ISBN 978-0-7864-2531-0.
  2. "Matthew Noble - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951".
  3. Mary Ann Steggles & Richard Barnes (2011). British Sculpture in India: New Views & Old Memories. Frontier Publishing. ISBN 9781872914411.
  4. Sharples, Joseph; Pollard, Richard. Liverpool. In Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006). The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. p. 296. ISBN 0-300-10910-5.
  5. Historic England. "Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn (1255605)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  6. "Oliver Cromwell". Public Monument and Sculpture Association. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
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