John Graham Lough
John Graham Lough was born in Consett, England, United Kingdom on January 8th, 1798 and is the Sculptor. At the age of 78, John Graham Lough biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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John Graham Lough (1798 – 8 April 1876) was an English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a number of portrait sculptures.
He also produced ideal classical male and female figures.
Life
John Graham Lough was born in Black Hedley Port, Greenhead, one of eleven children born to William Lough of Aycliff, County Durham, and Barbara Clementson of Dalton, Northumberland. His father, who lived near Hexham, may have worked as a farmer in his youth. He was later apprenticed to a stonemason at Shotley Field near Newcastle upon Tyne. He later worked in Newcastle as an ornamental sculptor and carved the designs on the city's Literary and Philosophical Society's building.
Lough came by sea in 1825 to study the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum in London. He stayed in a first floor in Burleigh Street, above a greengrocer's shop, and then began to sculpt his colossal statue of Milo of Croton, based on his investigations of the Elgin Marbles and Michelangelo's work. He joined the Royal Society Schools with John Thomas Smith's help and became Benjamin Haydon's protégé in 1826. He unveiled the completed statue the following year. (A bronze version dating from 1863 survives at Blagdon, Northumberland). It was so impressed on London society that it attracted scores of clients and established his career.
Ideal figures and heads of the Royal Academy from 1826 have been on display at the Royal Academy. He lived in Rome between 1834 and 1838, where his portrait style was inspired by Neo-classicism.
Lough was granted a provisional grant to carve four granite lions for the base of Nelson's Column. However, after consulting with William Railton, the column's designer, he dropped out of the project, unwilling to work under the architect's limitations. Edwin Landseer later finished the job in bronze, finally finishing it in 1867.
He was a close friend of surgeon Campbell De Morgan, who died of pneumonia when he visited Lough. De Morgan's bust was donated to the Middlesex Hospital medical school and is on display there. In Kensal Green cemetery, London, Lough is buried.
Thomas, one of his younger brothers, was a gifted musician, illustrator, and poet, but he died at Lanchester Workhouse in 1848, a year after John Graham's death.