Soldier, War Memorial
1919-22
Sentry
1921
Soldier, Tank Memorial
1927-8
HRH,Prince of Wales
1922
Scandal
1930
Nymph and satyr mocking
elderly satyr who is offering jewels to a young nymph
1930
Saint John
1926-7
Mary
1926-7
Driver and Horse Artillery
1921-5
1919-20
Wipers
1921
First Battle of Ypres, 1914
1918-9
Shell Carrier
1921-5
Recumbant Figure (i.e. corpse)
1925
Marine Transport (clay model)
1928
Scandal (detail)
1930
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Charles Sargeant Jagger
1885 - 1934
Apprenticed as a metal engraver, he eventually was awarded a sculpture scholarship
to the Royal College, and became a student and assistant to Lantieri.
In July, 1914, he won the Prix de Rome to study sculpture in Italy --
but a few weeks later Britain declared war, and a few weeks after that,
Jagger enlisted - eventually fighting (and being badly wounded) in both
Gallipoli and France. His career rose to distinction in the 20's, but
the voice of modernism did not treat him kindly: "nothing approaches the
commonness, the effective, brutal, catch-penny vulgarity of his work" -
Roger Fry.
And yet, Jagger was not so far out-of-step with the other post-beaux-arts
sculptors of his day. He preached the union of sculpture with architecture
and took as his standard the relief sculpture of ancient Assyria.
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