John Steell - Works

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