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John Stevenson Rhind was born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland on 16 June 1859 and was one of a family of notable sculptors. His father, Alexander Rhind (1834-1886), his uncle, John Rhind (1828-1892), and his cousins, Birnie Rhind (1853-1933) and John Massey Rhind (1860-1936), were all sculptors and exhibitors at the Royal Scottish Academy. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy Life School in Edinburgh from 1881 to 1886 and subsequently worked as a sculptor, specialising in portrait busts and monumental sculptures. He is probably best known for his statues of Queen Victoria for Leith Walk, Edinburgh (1907) and of Edward VII for Victoria Park, Edinburgh (1913-14). He produced portrait busts of Leonard Horner, Robert Cox, Richard Mackie, and Sir James Young Simpson.

Text source: Arts + Architecture Profiles from Art History Research net (AHRnet) https://www.arthistoryresearch.net/


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