Works
Steell's works include:
- a bust of Wardlaw Ramsay in the Scottish Missionary Society Hall, Edinburgh, 1838
- the statue of Sir Walter Scott siting with his dog Maida under the Scott Monument, carved 1840-46 from a single 30 ton block of Carrara marble.
- a stone statue of Queen Victoria on top of the Royal Scottish Academy (originally called Edinburgh's Royal Institution), 1844.
- a bust of the Duke of Wellington at Eton College, 1845.
- a bust of the Duke of Wellington at Apsley House, 1846.
- pediment of the Head Office of the Bank of Montreal in Montreal, 1847.
- a statue of artist Allan Ramsay at the foot of The Mound in Edinburgh, 1850.
- a bronze equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington outside Register House in Edinburgh, 1852. When it was unveiled the press dubbed the statue "the Iron Duke in bronze by Steell".
- the gravestone of Professor John Wilson in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, 1854.
- a statue of Professor John Wilson in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, 1856.
- a statue of Lord Melville the centrepiece of Melville Street in Edinburgh, 1857.
- a bust of Lord Cockburn standing in Parliament House, Edinburgh, 1857.
- a statue of Lord Jeffrey also in Parliament House, 1857.
- a bust of Sir John McNeill, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 1859.
- a bronze bust of Florence Nightingale, on display at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, 1862.
- a monument to the Duke of Atholl at Blair Atholl, Perth, 1864.
- a statue of Lord Dalhousie in Calcutta, 1864.
- a monument to soldiers from the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders regiment who fell in the Crimean War, situated in Glasgow Cathedral, 1869.
- a seated statue of Scottish national poet Robert Burns in Central Park, New York City, 1871.
- a monument to Dean Ramsay east of St John's Church, on Princes Street Edinburgh, 1875.
- a bust of Thomas de Quincey in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1876.
- a statue of Prince Albert (entitled The Prince Consort) in Charlotte Square in Edinburgh, 1876.
- a statue of Robert Burns in Dunedin, New Zealand, 1877.
- a statue of Dr. Thomas Chalmers in George Street, Edinburgh, 1878.
- a bust of Warburton Begbie in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1879.
- a seated statue of Sir Walter Scott in Central Park, New York City, 1880.
- a statue of Robert Burns in Dundee, 1880.
- a statue of Robert Burns on the Embankment in London, 1884.
- a bust of Robert Burns in Westminster Abbey, 1885.
- a bronze bas relief funerary panel of Lord and Lady Rutherfurd, and later a marble bust of Lady Rutherfurd, modelled after her death mask
- a bust of Earl Grey in the Council Chambers, Edinburgh.
- a white Carrera marble statue of novelist Sir Walter Scott and his dog, the centrepiece of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens
- the statue Alexander taming Bucephalus in the courtyard in front of Edinburgh's City Chambers
- a statue of early parliamentarian George Kinloch (Member of Parliament) in Dundee
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