Matthew Noble
1818-1876
Queen Victoria
1856
Ivory
H. 13 cm
S.18

Matthew Noble

The portrait sculptor Matthew Noble was born in Harness, near Scarborough, but went as a young man to London, where he studied under John Francis.

He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1845 but became recognised after winning the competition to build the Wellington Monument in Manchester, in 1856. Some of his works were copied in miniature by Copeland's, for production in Parian ware.

Never in robustly good health, Noble died rather young aged 56 and his unfinished works, were completed by his assistant J. Edwards.