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


 




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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