Continuing the focus on artists we turn to the Thorneycrofts, a family of painters and sculptors.
If you come along at 2pm on Saturday to the ‘Heroes of Westminster Walk’ you’ll discover an easily missed art-deco style building with seemingly vague squiggles and indentations which give us our link to this remarkable family. Thomas Thorneycroft created the imposing sculpture of Boudicea (sic?) on Westminster Bridge, and his wife, Mary Francis, was a sculptor who trained Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Louise. They had six children, four of whom were artists. On the walk we see Hamo’s controversial contribution to the Westminster landscape, and Teresa, the younger sister, provides our very neat segue to another, topical, literary figure who features on the walk just around the corner from our mysterious squiggles and indentations.
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This week’s question:
Thomas Thorneycroft’s work on Westminster Bridge features magnificent horses. Who lent Thomas two horses to use as models, and who is the central woman in the sculpture said to resemble?
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