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Monumental and figure sculptor, born in Aberdeen, where he studied at Gray’s School of Art, then at the Royal College of Art, 1908–12, under Édouard Lantéri. He showed at the RA from 1917, being elected RA in 1935, and being master of the Academy’s sculpture school, 1929–40. McMillan was elected a fellow of the RBS in 1932 and his Syrinx and Mother and Child appear in the volume RBS: Modern British Sculpture, published in 1939. Although there is this graceful side to McMillan’s work, he was noted for his public statues, such as Admiral Earl Beatty, in Trafalgar Square, of 1948; George VI, in Carlton House Terrace, of 1955; and Alcock and Brown the aviators, at Heathrow Airport, 1966. Represented in several public collections, including Tate Gallery, and lived in London.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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