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George I's Statue
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United KingdomTel: +44 121 414 7333
George I stands, or rather sits on his horse, outside the Barber Institute of Fine Arts near Birmingham University. The particular interest in this bronze figure lies in the fact that it is Birmingham's oldest memorial work. It was originally commissioned in Dublin in the early 1720s and the sculptor is thought to have been John van Nost the Elder. Its unveiling was a cause for celebration at the time. However, as time passed it was deemed to be at risk from attacks by Republican sympathisers, and it was sold to the Barber Institute in the 1930s. The king wears a laurel crown but is otherwise dressed in the clothing of his time. Its siting is deliberately ironic, since George I was quoted as saying that he despised artists.
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