Edwin Roscoe Mullins
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| birth_date = 22 August 1848
| birth_place = Holborn, London
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| death_place = Walberswick, Suffolk
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| nationality = British
| education = Marlborough College
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Edwin Roscoe Mullins (22 August 1848- 9 January 1907) was a British sculptor known for a number of architectural sculptures and smaller works featuring neo-classical figures.{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn= 0902028553}}
Biography
Mullins was born at Holborn in central London and attended Lough Grammar School and, from 1863 to 1865, Marlborough College in Wiltshire.{{cite ODNB|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35146|title=Mullins, Edwin Roscoe|author=S.E. Fryer & Emma Hardy|date=23 September 2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35146 |access-date=1 July 2022}} He trained at the Lambeth School of Art before studying at the Royal Academy Schools from 1967.{{cite book|author=Susan Beattie|publisher=Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press|year=1983|title=The New Sculpture |isbn= 0300033591}} In 1868 he won a gold medal in the National Art Competition for a model from the antique. Mullins was sponsored at the Royal Academy Schools by the sculptor John Birnie Philip and subsequently worked for him as an assistant before moving to Munich where he studied under Michael Wagmüller and also shared a studio with Edward Onslow Ford.{{cite book|author=Mary Ann Steggles & Richard Barnes|publisher= Frontier Publishing|year=2011|title=British Sculpture in India: New Views & Old Memories |isbn= 9781872914411}} In 1872 he won a silver medal at Munich and a bronze at Vienna for his work Sympathy.
Mullins returned to London around 1874. There, he created sculptures of neo-classical figures and portrait busts and statuettes and was, for a time, associated with the New Sculpture movement. He became a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery and in 1884 he was elected to the Art Workers Guild. He also exhibited with the Society of British Artists, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at Manchester City Art Gallery.{{cite web |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00127561|title=Mullins, Edwin Roscoe|website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists|date=31 October 2011|doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00127561 |access-date=1 July 2022}} Mullins also received a number of public commissions and at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris was awarded a silver medal. In 1890 he published A Primer of Sculpture and was appointed as an instructor in modelling for architecture at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1897. He died in 1907 at Walberswick in Suffolk.
Selected public works
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| image = Beckton - Gallions Hotel - oriel window and frieze (geograph 6547082).jpg
| commonscat = Gallions Hotel
| subject = Untitled
| location = Gallions Hotel, Newham
| date = 1881-83
| type = Frieze
| material = Plaster
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| designation = Grade II*
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| wikidata = Q17553250
| notes = {{NHLE |num=1376224|desc=Gallions Hotel |access-date=1 July 2022}}
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| subject = Major General Lousada Barrow
| location = Uttar Pradesh State Museum, Lucknow
| date = 1882
| type = Statue
| material = Marble
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| subject = Henry VII of England
| location = Scott's Building, King's College, Cambridge
| date = 1883
| type = Statue in niche
| material = Stone
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| designation = Grade II
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| notes = {{NHLE |num=1145818|desc=King's College, Scott's Building |access-date=6 July 2022}}
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| image = To Literature, Arts and Sciences.jpg
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| subject = School of Athens
| location = Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
| date = 1886
| type = Sculptural pediment
| material = Stone
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| designation = Grade I
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| wikidata = Q12059583
| notes = {{NHLE |num=1207306|desc= Harris Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery |access-date=6 July 2022}}
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| image = High Street West, Dorchester – statue of William Barnes.jpg
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| subject = William Barnes
| location = St Peter's Church, Dorchester, Dorset
| date = 1888
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Bronze and stone
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| designation = Grade II
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| wikidata = Q26412421
| notes = {{cite book|author=Jo Darke|publisher=Macdonald Illustrated|year=1991|title= The Monument Guide to England and Wales |isbn=0-356-17609-6}}{{NHLE |num=1119032|desc= Monument to William Barnes in Churchyard immediately south of West Tower|access-date=4 July 2022}}
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| image = Tomb of John Frederick Ginnett, Woodvale Cemetery, Brighton (IoE Code 482035).jpg
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| subject = Tomb of John Frederick Ginnett
| location = Woodvale Cemetery, Brighton
| date = 1893
| type = Tomb on plinth with equine statue
| material = Granite & Portland stone
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| designation = Grade II
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| wikidata = Q26661769
| notes = Ginnett was a circus owner.{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/eleven-public-sculptures-to-see-in-brighton|title=Eleven public sculptures to see in Brighton|date= 3 April 2019|author=Lydia Figes|website=Art UK|access-date=3 July 2022}}{{NHLE |num=1381672|desc=Woodvale Cemetery Tomb of John Frederick Ginnett|access-date=4 July 2022}}
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| image = Croydon Old Town Hall, sculpture Study.jpg
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| subject = Study, Religion, Recreation, Health, Music
| location = Croydon Town Hall
| date = 1896
| type = Five decorative relief panels
| material = Stone
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| designation = Grade II
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| wikidata = Q26483913
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| image = Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Kibble Palace. Edwin Roscoe Mullins - 'Cain' (c. 1899).jpg
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| subject = Cain
| location = Glasgow Botanic Gardens
| date = c. 1899
| type = Statue
| material = Marble
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| image = Queen Victoria statue outside the Main Library, Port Elizabeth,South Africa.jpg
| commonscat = Queen Victoria Statue, Port Elizabeth
| subject = Queen Victoria
| location = Port Elizabeth, South Africa
| date = Unveiled 1903
| type = Statue on pedestal
| material = Marble
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| wikidata = Q36692437
| notes = Commissioned for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, unveiled in 1903 and subject to a paint attack in 2010.{{cite book|author=Martina Droth, Jason Edwards & Michael Hatt|publisher=Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Press|year=2014|title= Sculpture Victorious: Art in the Age of Invention, 1837-1901 |isbn=9780300208030}}{{cite web|url= https://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/victoria-monuments/260/statue-of-queen-victoria|title= Statue of Queen Victoria 1903 |website=Yale Centre for British Art|access-date=18 July 2022}}
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External links
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