John Tweed
{{Short description|Scottish sculptor}}
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| death_place = London, England
| burial_place = Chelsea Old Church
| occupation = Sculptor
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John Tweed (21 January 1869 – 12 November 1933) was a Scottish sculptor.
Early life
Tweed was born on January 21, 1869, at 16 Great Portland Street, Glasgow, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art.{{cite web|title=John Tweed|url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1203033933|website=GLA.ac.uk|access-date=28 March 2015}} He then trained with Hamo Thornycroft in London, and attended the Royal Academy Schools at the same time.{{cite web|title=John Tweed: The 'British Rodin'|url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/j/album-with-nested-carousel6/|website=V&A|access-date=28 March 2015}} Together, they created the frieze on the Institute of Chartered Accountants' building in London. In 1893, he moved to Paris with the hope of studying with Auguste Rodin. However, this did not happen, as Rodin would only accept pupils who would spend four years under his supervision.{{cite ODNB |id=36597|title=Tweed, John|first=Mark|last=Stocker}}
Personal life
In 1895, he married Edith Clinton, secretary to the National Society for Women's Suffrage, the first national group in the UK to campaign for women's right to vote.{{cite web|title=John Tweed|url=http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/visitkensingtonandchelsea/seedo/people/blueplaques/recordss-u/johntweed.aspx|website=RBKC|access-date=28 March 2015}} In 1895, they moved into 108 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, and Tweed lived there until his death on November 12, 1933, aged 64.{{cite web|title=Portrait of John Tweed|url=http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/vmgallery/general/medium.asp?gallery=vm_blue_plaques&img=blue_plaques/thumb/vm_bp_0112.jpg&size=medium|website=RBKC|access-date=28 March 2015}} He was buried at Chelsea Old Church.
Legacy
The first major exhibition of Tweed's work since 1934 ran from March to September 2013 at the Sir John Madejski Art Gallery, Reading Museum, in Reading, England.{{cite web|title=John Tweed: The Empire Sculptor, Rodin's Friend|url=http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/events/details/369/|website=Reading Museum|access-date=28 March 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144417/http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/events/details/369/|archive-date=2 April 2015|df=dmy-all}} The Victoria and Albert Museum have called him the "British Rodin".
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Category:19th-century Scottish sculptors
Category:20th-century British sculptors
Category:19th-century Scottish artists
Category:20th-century Scottish artists
Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art
Category:Scottish male sculptors
Category:19th-century Scottish male artists