Albert Toft
{{Short description|English sculptor (1862–1949)}}
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| name = Albert Toft
| image = George Clausen - Portrait Of Albert Toft (1862-1949) - 1947P17 - Birmingham Museums Trust.jpg
| caption = Albert Toft by George Clausen
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|06|03|df=y}}
| birth_place = Handsworth, Staffordshire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|12|18|1862|06|03|df=y}}
| death_place = Worthing, Sussex, England
| nationality = British
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| alma_mater = South Kensington Schools
| occupation = Sculptor
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Albert Toft (3 June 1862 – 18 December 1949){{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/38293|title=Albert Toft|work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|accessdate=4 January 2012}} was a British sculptor.[http://www.drawpaintsculpt.com/artist-biographies/albert-toft Albert Toft] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110815194511/http://www.drawpaintsculpt.com/artist-biographies/albert-toft/ |date=15 August 2011 }}
Toft's career was dominated by public commemorative commissions in bronze, mostly single statues of military or royal figures. The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, Boer War to 1902, and then World War I to 1918, provided plentiful commissions. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Toft as one of the major figures of the "New Sculpture" movement following on from William Hamo Thornycroft and George Frampton. Toft described his work as 'Idealist' but he also said of himself that "to become an idealist you must necessarily first be a realist."
His father was a notable modeller in ceramics, and his brother was the landscape artist Joseph Alfonso Toft.
Biography
Toft was born in Handsworth, then in Staffordshire, and now a suburb of Birmingham. His parents were Charles Toft (1832–1909) and Rosanna Reeves. His father was a senior modeller at Mintons, and then the chief modeller at Wedgwood pottery. He had also taught modelling at Birmingham School of Art for some years to 1873.'Charles Toft', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1209120203, accessed 10 Nov 2018]
Toft trained at Wedgwood, and attended art schools in Hanley, Staffordshire and Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1881 he won a scholarship to study sculpture at the South Kensington Schools under Professor Édouard Lantéri.[http://www.web-mouse.co.uk/remembrance/extracts/britishwarmemorials/hf-bwm-toft.htm Remembrance and British war memorials] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927234125/http://www.web-mouse.co.uk/remembrance/extracts/britishwarmemorials/hf-bwm-toft.htm |date=27 September 2007 }}. Sourced 1 September 2007 He received silver medals in his second and third years.
From 1885 onwards Toft exhibited at the Royal Academy and some of his most notable works exhibited at the Royal Academy included Fate-Led (1890, now at Walker Art Gallery), The Sere and Yellow Leaf (1892), Spring (1897, now at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery), The Spirit of Contemplation (1901; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle) and The Metal Pourer (1915). In 1915 his sculpture The Bather was purchased using the Royal Academy's Chantrey Fund. His 1888 bust of William Ewart Gladstone for the National Liberal Club was modelled from life and acclaimed as one of the best. In 1900 Toft received a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris.
He created monuments to Queen Victoria for Leamington Spa, Nottingham, and South Shields, and to Edward VII in Birmingham and Warwick. He designed the coronation medal of George V and Queen Mary (1911) and a statuette of W. S. Penley playing Charley's Aunt for Royal Doulton (1913). He also published a book, Modelling and Sculpture in 1911, which was reprinted in 1949.
He made a series of war memorials, starting with the South African War Memorial in Cardiff (1910), and then many after the First World War, including the Royal Fusiliers War Memorial in London (1922), and four statues for the Birmingham Hall of Memory (1923–24).
In 1891 Toft was elected to the Art Workers Guild and in 1938 he was elected a fellow to the Royal Society of British Sculptors.[https://archive.today/20121128164126/http://217.204.55.154/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=RefNo=='2003.4'&dsqDb=Catalog Toft's biography at the Henry Moore Institute website]
He died in Worthing.
Public monuments and memorials
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| image = Bust of George Wallis by Albert Toft.jpg
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| subject = George Wallis
| location = National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum
| date = 1889
| type = Bust
| material = Terracotta
| dimensions = 61.5cm high
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| notes = {{cite web|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O71924/george-wallis-fsa-1811-1891-bust-toft-albert/|title=George Wallis FSA (1811-1891)|website=Victoria and Albert Museum|access-date=4 February 2024}}{{cite book|author=Diane Bilbey with Marjorie Trusted |publisher=V&A Publications|year=2002|title=British Sculpture 1470 to 2000 A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum |isbn= 1851773959}}
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| image = Memorial Bust - Major Jonathan White (cropped).jpg
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| subject = Major Jonathen White
| location = Nottingham Castle
| date = 1891
| type = Bust on pedestal
| material = Bronze and granite
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| notes = Major White (1804–1889) served in the Robin Hood Rifles.{{cite book|publisher=English Heritage / PMSA|year=2000|title=A User's Guide to Public Sculpture |isbn=185074776-8}}{{cite web|url=http://www.stuartburch.com/uploads/8/1/9/1/8191744/2000_nottingham_sculpture_walk.pdf|title= Nottingham Castle|website= English Heritage |accessdate= 13 November 2012}}{{cite book|author=Jo Darke|publisher=Macdonald Illustrated|year=1991|title= The Monument Guide to England and Wales |isbn=0-356-17609-6}}
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| image = Statue of Henry Richard, Tregaron, Ceredigion - geograph.org.uk - 1435990.jpg
| commonscat = Statue of Henry Richard, Tregaron
| subject = Henry Richard
| location = Tregaron, Ceredigion
| date = 1893
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and granite
| dimensions = 5.5m high
| designation = Grade II
| coordinates =
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| wikidata = Q29495968
| notes = {{cadw |num= 18476 |desc= Henry Richard Memorial |accessdate= 10 May 2021}}
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| image = Philip James Bailey - geograph.org.uk - 2721624.jpg
| commonscat = Bust of Philip James Bailey
| subject = Philip James Bailey
| location = Nottingham Castle
| date = 1901
| type = Bust and panel
| material = Bronze
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| image = Queen Victoria's Statue - geograph.org.uk - 107476.jpg
| commonscat = Statue of Queen Victoria, Royal Leamington Spa
| subject = Queen Victoria
| location = Town Hall, Royal Leamington Spa
| date = 1901
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Sicilian marble and Aberdeen granite
| dimensions = 3 metres high statue on a 4 metres high pedestal
| designation = Grade II
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| wikidata = Q26661547
| notes = {{NHLE |num=1381440 |desc=Statue of Queen Victoria|grade=II |accessdate=9 October 2015}}
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| image = Albert Toft (1862-1949) - The Spirit of Contemplation (bronze) (1901) (11340231214).png
| commonscat = The Spirit of Contemplation by Albert Toft
| subject = The Spirit of Contemplation
| location = Laing Art Gallery
| date = 1901
| type = Statue
| material = Bronze
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| image = Jarrow, Sir Charles Mark Palmer statue - geograph.org.uk - 595987.jpg
| commonscat = Statue of Charles Mark Palmer, Jarrow
| subject = Charles Mark Palmer
| location = Jarrow, Tyneside
| date = 1903
| type = Statue on pedestal with panels
| material = Bronze and Portland stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata= Q26637979
| wikidata = Q26637979
| notes = {{NHLE |num=1355095 |desc=Statue to Sir Charles Mark Palmer |access-date=9 May 2021}}
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| image = Nottingham Memorial Park Victoria 0391s.JPG|Queen Victoria,
| commonscat = Statue of Queen Victoria, Nottingham
| subject = Queen Victoria
| location = Memorial Park, Nottingham
| date = 1905
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Marble and granite
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q26560473
| notes = {{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/toft/25.html|title=Panels from a Memorial to the Late Queen in Nottingham, by Albert Toft|website=Victorianweb.org|accessdate=12 February 2019}}{{NHLE |num=1270415 |desc=Statue of Queen Victoria in Memorial Gardens |accessdate=17 October 2020}}{{cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-458928-statue-of-queen-victoria-in-memorial-gar|title= Statue of Queen Victoria|website= British Listed Buildings|accessdate= 13 November 2012}}
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| image = Monument to Suffolk soldiers, Christchurch park - geograph.org.uk - 1223180.jpg
| commonscat = Boer War Memorial, Ipswich
| subject = Boer War memorial
| location = Christchurch Park, Ipswich
| date = 1906
| type = Statue on pedestal with plaques
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q26530640
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/4613 |title=War Memorials Register: Suffolk Soldiers|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1237499 |desc=Boer War Memorial Christchurch Park |access-date=9 May 2021}}
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| image = South African War Memorial Statue - Cannon Hill Park - geograph.org.uk - 807866.jpg
| commonscat = Boer War Memorial, Cannon Hill Park
| subject = Boer War memorial
| location = Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham
| date = 1906
| type = Sculpture group on tapered pedestal with reliefs and plaques
| material = Bronze and granite
| dimensions = 6M tall
| designation = Grade II*
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q26162445
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17351 |title=War Memorials Register: Cannon Hill Park Boer War Composite|access-date= 17 February 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1392586 |desc=Boer War Memorial, Cannon Hill Park|access-date=17 February 2021}}
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| image = The South African (Boer War) Memorial 2012.jpg
| commonscat = South African War Memorial, Cardiff
| subject = South African War Memorial
| location = Cathays Park, Cardiff
| date = 1909
| type = Sculptures on pedestal & base
| material = Bronze and Portland stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II*
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q17741148
| notes = {{cite book|author=John Newman|title=The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan|year=1995|publisher=Penguin Group|isbn=0-14-071056-6|page=107|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DpUMspCtpNIC&q=South+African+War+Memorial+cardiff&pg=PA685}}{{cite book|title=For Remembrance and in Honour of Those Who Lost Their Lives in the South African War 1899-1902|author= James Gildea|year=1911|page= 251}}{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2133 |title=War Memorials Register: Welsh National South African War |access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}
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| image =
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| subject = Memorial to Alistair Mackenzie
| location = St James's Church, Abinger Common, Abinger
| date = 1910
| type = Wall tablet
| material =
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| designation = Grade II*
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| notes = {{NHLE |num=1378082 |desc=Church of St James|access-date=12 May 2021}}
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| image = King Edward VII statue Birmingham.JPG
| commonscat = King Edward VII Memorial
| subject = King Edward VII Memorial
| location = Centenary Square, Birmingham
| date = 1913
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
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| wikidata = Q6411498
| notes = {{NHLE |num=1289623 |desc=Edward VII Memorial Statue|grade=II |accessdate=7 May 2021}}
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| image = Statue Reine Victoria Hôtel ville South Shields South Tyneside 3.jpg
| commonscat = Statue of Queen Victoria, South Shields
| subject = Queen Victoria
| location = South Shields
| date = c. 1913
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and granite
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q26525766
| notes = Originally erected with four supporting figures, now located elsewhere in South Shields{{NHLE |num=1232222 |desc=Statue of Queen Victoria|grade=II |accessdate=9 May 2021}}
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| image = The Bather by Albert Toft, V&A London 02.jpg
| commonscat =
| subject = The Bather
| location = Victoria and Albert Museum
| date = 1915
| type = Statue
| material = Marble
| dimensions =
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| notes = On loan from the Tate{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/toft/8.html|title= The Bather|website= Victorian Web|accessdate= 13 November 2012}}
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| image =London Joint City and Midland Bank war memorial 4.jpg
| commonscat = London Joint City and Midland Bank war memorial
| subject = City and Midland Bank War Memorial
| location = Upper Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London
| date = 1921
| type = Two sculptures, 14 inscribed panels and pediment
| material = Bronze and marble
| dimensions =
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| wikidata = Q112127933
| notes = Sculptures represent St George and the Recording Angel.{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1620 |title=War Memorials Register: Joint City and Midland Bank – WW1|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}
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| image = Stone 22.jpg
| commonscat = Stone War Memorial, Staffordshire
| subject = War memorial
| location = Granville Square, Stone, Staffordshire
| date = 1921
| type = Statue on pedestal with plaques
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q26513651
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2215 |title=War Memorials Register: Stone Serviceman|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1219085 |desc= War Memorial |access-date=9 May 2021}}
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| image = Sandon 3.jpg
| commonscat = Sandon War Memorial, Staffordshire
| subject = War memorial
| location = Sandon Estate, Sandon, Staffordshire
| date = 1921
| type = Statue on pedestal with plaques
| material = Bronze and stone
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| wikidata = Q104245206
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| image = Chadderton War Memorial.jpg
| commonscat = Chadderton War Memorial
| subject = War memorial
| location = Chadderton Town Hall, Greater Manchester
| date = 1921
| type = Statue on obelisk and base
| material = Bronze and granite
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q26320858
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2034 |title=War Memorials Register: Chadderton|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1068095 |desc= Chadderton War Memorial |access-date=9 May 2021}}
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| image = Royal Fusiliers memorial.JPG
| commonscat = Royal Fusiliers War Memorial
| subject = Royal Fusiliers War Memorial
| location = Holborn, London
| date = 1922
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and Portland stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II*
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q7374415
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2125 |title=War Memorials Register: Royal Fusiliers City of London Regiment|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1064638 |desc= Royal Fusiliers War Memorial |access-date=9 May 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/dfc11b74.html|title=Royal London Fusiliers' War Memorial 1914-1918|website=The Courtauld Institute of Art|access-date=10 December 2022}}
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| image = Leamington Spa War Memorial.jpg
| commonscat = Royal Leamington Spa War Memorial
| subject = War memorial
| location = Euston Place, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
| date = 1922
| type = Statue on inscribed pedestal
| material = Bronze and Cornish granite
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q26661550
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2204 |title=War Memorials Register: Leamington Spa|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1381443 |desc=War Memorial|accessdate=9 October 2015}}
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| image = War Memorial, Streatham - geograph.org.uk - 26524.jpg
| commonscat = Streatham War Memorial
| subject = Streatham War Memorial
| location = Streatham, London
| date = 1922
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q32946115
| notes = {{cite book|author=Derek Boorman|title=At the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials| publisher=William Sessions Limited|year=1988|isbn=1 85072 041 X}}{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2216 |title=War Memorials Register: Streatham|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1440589 |desc=Streatham War Memorial|grade=II |accessdate=9 October 2015}}
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| image =
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| subject = Savage Club war memorial
| location = National Liberal Club, London
| date = 1922
| type = Plaque
| material = Stone
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| image = Benenden Monument - geograph.org.uk - 46330.jpg
| commonscat = Benenden War Memorial
| subject = War memorial
| date = 1923
| type = Sculpture on pedestal
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q26371278
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1541 |title=War Memorials Register: Men of Benenden - WW1 and WW2|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1085201 |desc=War Memorial |access-date=9 May 2021}}
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| image = War Memorial, Thornton-Cleveleys (cropped).jpg
| commonscat = Thornton-Cleveleys War Memorial
| subject = Thornton-Cleveleys War Memorial
| location = Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire
| date = 1923
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and granite
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q108695758
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/570 |title=War Memorials Register: Thornton Cleveleys |access-date= 12 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1477225 |desc=Thornton Cleveleys War Memorial |access-date=26 January 2022}}
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| image = Oldham War Memorial.jpg
| commonscat = Oldham War Memorial
| subject = Oldham War Memorial
| location = Grounds of St Mary's Church, Oldham, Lancashire
| date = 1923
| type = Sculpture group on pedestal and base
| material = Bronze and granite
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II*
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q22115519
| notes = Architect, Thomas Taylor{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10 |title=War Memorials Register: Oldham|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1210137 |desc= Oldham War Memorial, including memorial wall, piers, gates and steps to St Mary's churchyard and forecourt walls, steps and bulstrade (south side) and railings to St Mary's Churchyard (west side) |access-date=9 May 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/remembrance-in-bronze-and-stone-memorials-of-the-first-world-war|title=Remembrance in bronze and stone: memorials of the First World War|author=Anthony McIntosh|date=7 November 2018|website=Art UK|accessdate=10 May 2021}}
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| image = GKN War Memorial, Smethwick (geograph 6190503).jpg
| commonscat =
| subject = GKN War memorial
| location = Thimblemill Recreation Ground, Smethwick
| date = 1924
| type = Statue on pedestal and steps
| material = Bronze and stone
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade II
| show_wikidata=
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| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17499 |title=War Memorials Register: Guest, Keen and Nettlefords Works Serviceman|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1461776 |desc= Guest, Keen and Nettlefords (GKN) War Memorial |access-date=9 May 2021}}
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| image = Hall of Memory 2.jpg
| commonscat = Toft statues at Hall of Memory, Birmingham
| subject = The Armed Forces and Nursing Services
| location = Hall of Memory, Birmingham
| date = 1923
| type = 4 Sculptures
| material = Bronze
| dimensions =
| designation = Grade I
| show_wikidata=
| wikidata = Q5642705
| notes = {{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2049 |title=War Memorials Register: Birmingham Hall of Memory|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}{{NHLE |num=1244943 |desc= Birmingham Hall of Memory |access-date=9 May 2021}}
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| image = Flers (Somme), monument à la 41e division britannique 3.jpg
| commonscat = Flers (Somme), monument à la 41e division britannique
| subject = 41st Division, Royal Fusiliers War Memorial
| location = Flers, Somme, France
| date = 1932
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and stone
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| notes = Figure is a version of the Holborn memorial statue.
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| image = Bust of Frank Brangwyn, National Museum Cardiff 02.jpg
| commonscat = Bust of Frank Brangwyn, National Museum Cardiff
| subject = Frank Brangwyn
| location = National Museum Cardiff
| date = 1937
| type = Bust
| material = Bronze
| dimensions = 59.0cm
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| image = Midland Bank staff memorial for World War 2.jpg
| commonscat = London Joint City and Midland Bank war memorial
| subject = World War II Midland Bank Staff Memorial
| location = Canary Wharf, London
| date = Unveiled 1950
| type = Reliefs and panels
| material = Stone and marble
| dimensions =
| designation =
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| wikidata = Q112127933
| notes = Originally located in Poultry in the City of London{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17958 |title=War Memorials Register: Midland Bank Staff WW2|access-date= 9 May 2021|website= Imperial War Museum}}
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Other works
Image:Saint George statue for London Joint City and Midland Bank war memorial.jpg
- Two figures for the Union Assurance war memorial{{cite web|url=http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/7b4a97b9.html|title=Union Assurance War Memorial|website=The Courtauld Institute of Art |access-date=10 December 2022}}{{cite web|url=http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/conway/8e517237.html|title=Union Assurance War Memorial models |website=The Courtauld Institute of Art |access-date=10 December 2022}}
- Memorial to Charles Swinnerton Heap, unveiled 1901, relocated to Walsall Town Hall in 1905.{{cite news|url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/black-country-bugle/20181010/281908774099289 |title=Village Memorial Restored to Original|date=10 October 2018|newspaper=Black County Bugle|access-date=13 May 2023}}
- Bronze study of the actress Ellaline Terriss, 1901, held in a private collection.{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/toft/2.html|title= Ellaline Terriss|website= Victorian Web|accessdate= 13 November 2012}}
- Children of the Sculptor, 1904, this study by Toft of three of his children is held in a private collection.{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/toft/24.html|title= Children of the Sculptor|website= Victorian Web|accessdate= 13 November 2012}}
- Tomb effigy in marble of Sir John Robinson, 1930, St Anne's Church, Worksop{{NHLE |num= 1045754|desc= Church of St Anne, Worksop|accessdate= 28 January 2022|mode=cs2}}
- Maternity, held in a private collection, this work is said to show the influence of the Lantéri-Dalou tradition.{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/toft/9c.html|title= Maternity|website= Victorian Web|accessdate= 13 November 2012}}
- Fate-led, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/toft/21.html|title= Fate-led|website= Victorian Web|accessdate=13 November 2012}}
Gallery
Image:Holborn Toft.jpg|Royal Fusiliers War Memorial, Holborn, London
Image:Birmingham - Hall of memory 7.JPG|The Nursing Service, Birmingham Hall of Memory.
Image:Birmingham - Hall of memory 6.JPG|The Air Force, Birmingham Hall of Memory.
Image:Birmingham - Hall of memory 4.JPG|The Royal Navy, Birmingham Hall of Memory.
Image:Birmingham - Hall of memory 3.JPG|The Army, Birmingham Hall of Memory.
Image:EB1911 Plate IV. v24, pg.505, Fig 7.jpg|Antigone.Encyclopædia Britannica, ed. 1911, vol. 24, pg. 505, Plate IV.
File:Recording Angel statue for London Joint City and Midland Bank war memorial.jpg|Recording Angel statue for London Joint City and Midland Bank war memorial
References
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- Modelling And Sculpture by Albert Toft, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited London, 1949—A Full Account of the Various Methods and Processes Employed in These Arts
External links
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- [http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/toft/toftov.html Toft on The Victorian Web]
- [http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Toft,_Albert_(1862-1949),_Sculptor National Archives file]
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