Dolphin and Merchild Bronze Statue by Ophelia Gordon Bell (1883 - 1973)


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Ophelia Gordon Bell was born in London in 1915 but spent much of her childhood in the Lake District.  In her mid teens Ophelia was well on the way to becoming an accomplished artist in her own right, studying at Regent Street Polytechnic Sculpture School in London where she worked with stone, wood, metal, clay and plaster.  By the age of 23 Ophelia had already exhibited her work at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts and the Society of Portrait Sculptors. 

In her later years Ophelia turned her attentions to the infinitely more pastoral and rural scenes that surrounded her: scenes that inspired her to craft her highly sought after sculptural studies of local shepherds with their sheep and farmers with their dogs.

Ophelia was commissioned in 1963 by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to make a sculpture for an ornamental pool and garden situated within the Winfrith Atomic Energy Establishment - a nuclear research station in Dorset. The site officially opened in 1960 with the Zenith reactor, followed by many other experimental reactors developed and demonstrated on the site over 25 years.  The original sculpture was modelled in clay, then cast in plaster, and finally in bronze.  This bronze cast is only the second to be made.

Cast in solid bronze.

Length 76cm (30 inches) x Width 61cm (24 inches) x Height 124cm (49 inches).

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