George Edward Wade was born in London, England on 2 March 1853 and was a self-taught artist. While recuperating in Italy from an illness he took up painting as a hobby and later switched to sculpting.

He came to prominence when in c.1889 when a copy in bronze of his terracotta statuette of a Grenadier Guardsman was purchased by Queen Victoria.

In 1891 he acquired the studio of the sculptor Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890) in the mews behind Onslow Square, London, and worked there until at least 1920.

Wade produced numerous portrait busts. His sitters included the Polish pianist Jan Paderewski; William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army; Prime; Minister William E. Gladstone; the Duke of Connaught; Earl Haig; and Queen Victoria.

Notable among Wade's public sculptures were the Cameron Highlander war memorial in Inverness (1893); the Sir John A. Macdonald Memorials in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (c.1893) and Montréal, Québec, Canada (1895); the statue of King Edward VII in Reading, Berkshire (1902); a bronze statue of a girl for a drinking fountain in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London (1907); a statue of Field Marshal Douglas Haig on horseback for Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh (1923); and statues of General William Booth and Catherine Booth, of the Salvation Army, for the William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park, Denmark Hill, London (1929)

In the early days of aviation Wade produced designs for aeroplanes.

He died at his home, 30 Hyde Park Street, London, on 5 February 1933.

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