Patrick MacDowell

Patrick MacDowell RA (12 August 1799 – 9 December 1870) was a Belfast-born British sculptor operating through the 19th century.

His father died whilst he was young and the family lived in relative poverty.

From 1807 to 1811 he boarded at a school in Belfast, run by an engraver named Gordon, who encouraged his attempts at drawing, and from 1811 to 1813 he was under the tuition of a clergyman in Hampshire.

A statue of Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth by MacDowell stands in the centre of the Greenwich Maritime Museum.

His last major work was the Europe allegorical group at the Albert Memorial in London.