:Robert Lindsey Clark
{{Short description|English sculptor (1864–1925)}}
Robert Lindsey Clark (1864–1925) was an English sculptor who started as an apprentice at H.H. Martyn & Co. and then studied at Lambeth School of Art.{{ cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/mapping/public/view/person.php?id=msib2_1220266331|title='Robert Lindsey Clark', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011|access-date=24 February 2024}} He returned to Martyns before 1901, and became their head of sculpture and art director in 1905. While working on the Queen Victoria Memorial, Calcutta he spent a considerable amount of time in the marble quarries in Carrara. He exhibited widely and was made a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1911.
Philip Lindsey Clark was a pupil in his father's studio at Martyns{{cite book|title="The Best"|author=John Whitaker|page=135|date=1985}} but in 1910 moved to london, where he had a notable career as a sculptor.{{ cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/mapping/public/view/person.php?id=msib2_1220280251|title=Philip Lindsey Clark DSO, FRBS, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 |access-date=24 February 2024}}
Robert's grandson, Michel Clark, also became a sculptor, largely creating religious works.{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1274093663|access-date=24 February 2024|title=Michael Clark, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 }}
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