Samuel Taylor Chadwick (1809–1876) 1871
Charles Bell Birch (1832–1893)
Charles Bell Birch was born in Brixton, Surrey [now in the London Borough of Lambeth] on 28 September 1832 and was the son of Jonathan Birch (1783–1847) a translator. He studied at the Government School of Design in Somerset House, London in 1844-45 and at the Königlichen Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 1845. He remained in Berlin for the next seven years during which time he embarked on a career as a sculptor. Notable among his work from this period was a bust of he Earl of Westmoreland, the British Ambassador in Berlin. He returned to England in 1852 and in December 1855 began studying at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he was awarded two medals. He also worked as a studio assistant and pupil of the Irish sculptor John Henry Ford (1818-1874) for ten years.
Birch exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1852 to 1893. He also exhibited at the British Institution, and Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1880 and a member of the Institute of British Sculptors in 1861.
Birch died in London on 16 October 1893.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
