Henry Snell Gamley [also known as Harry S. Gamley] was born in Logie Pert, Montrose, Scotland in 1865. After studying under Charles Hodder (1835–1926) at the Royal Institute, Edinburgh he moved to London and attended the Royal College of Art from 1897 to 1899 where he was taught by Eduard Lanteri. He then returned to Edinburgh where he finished his studies at the Royal Scottish Academy Schools under the sculptor William Grant Stevenson, (1849–1919). He subsequently worked as a sculptor and medallist. Gamley was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh from 1903 to 1928. He also exhibited at the Arlington Gallery and Royal Academy in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Aberdeen Artists' Society; and at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours in Edinburgh.
Gamley received numerous public commissions. Amongst his most notable was the 1922 bronze statue of King Edward VII located in the forecourt of Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. Other commissions included the monument to the sculptor Charles McBride in Dean Cemetery Edinburgh (1903); a bust of William Murdoch inventor of gas lighting (1916); war memorial on the north wall of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh (1918); war memorial at Morningside Free Church in Edinburgh (1921); war memorial for Montose, with John Kinross (1922); the war memorial for Heart of Midlothian football club at Haymarket, Edinburgh (1922); and the war memorial for Cupar, with John Kinross (1922)
He lived for most of his career as an artist in Edinburgh and died near Paris, France on 28 October 1928.
Text source: Arts + Architecture Profiles from Art History Research net (AHRnet) https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/
