HENRY POOLE | MAQUETTE WITH NEREIDS

Henry Poole was a student at the Royal Academy in London between 1892 and 1897. He collaborated with architect E.A. Rickards on numerous comissions for public buildings, including Westiminster Central Hall and Cardiff City Hall. The present bronze is a maquette for an architectural sculpture of Nereids, still visible on Cardiff City Hall to this day (see 'Henry Poole RA', 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=msib2_1210171348, accessed 02 Jun 2019]).