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The Wellington monument, in Upper Close Green in the precinct of Norwich Cathedral, was built to commemorate the victories of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. Wellington, a member of the Anglo-Irish upper class, also known as the 'Iron Duke', was born in Dublin. The Wellington monument is the work of the portrait sculptor and medallist George Gammon (sometimes Gamon) Adams who studied at the Royal Academy Schools from 1840, and had a year in Rome under John Gibson six years later. He came to note through success in various competitions, and after exhibiting works at the Great Exhibition (and designing prize medals for it), in 1852 was chosen to model the death mask of Wellington, afterwards making a marble bust of this. Subsequently, he was commissioned to produce several public monuments, and also modelled a series of busts of the great and the good, mostly in the 1850s and 1860s. |
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