Henry Webber

He was born in July 1754, the son of Abraham Webber, a Swiss sculptor who had settled in England, and his English wife, Maria Quandt.

[1] In 1778, Webber was chosen by the Oxford Paving Commission to carry out the sculptures and sphinxes for the balustrade of John Gwynn's Magdalen Bridge.

Unfortunately, in 1782 the Commission eventually abandoned this idea, paying a compensation payment and permitting him to keep any sculpture already made.

[4] Webber is also the author of the monument to David Garrick in the Poet's Corner in the Westminster Abbey.

[6] He modelled many of the figures for Wedgwood's Portland Vase[7] He died on 7 August 1826 at the house of Mrs Kincade at 11 South Crescent in Bedford Square in central London.