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Andrew Currie (sculptor)

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Fireplace and over-mantle exported to his brother, John Lang Currie, for his mansion in St Kilda, Melbourne
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until his forties when he began his career as a sculptor. He was aged 43 when he begin exhibiting at the
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Andrew Currie - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951
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Currie converted to Catholicism in 1864. He died in 1891 and is buried in Weirhill Cemetery in
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A painting by Andrew Currie of Darnick Tower, near Melrose, where he operated his workshop
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area, the son of a Howford sheep farmer, in 1812. He was apprenticed as a mill-wright in
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and knew him personally, adding greatly to the authenticity of his later statue to him.
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Fairy Flower Stand, (wood-carving) exhibited RSA 1855, current whereabouts unknown
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Edie Ochiltree, The Gaberlunzie man, (probably a practice-piece for the second
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Currie returned to Scotland in 1839 and continued to work as a mill-wright in
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Carving History: The Life and Works of Andrew Currie by Bob Johnstone
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Carving History: The Life and Works of Andrew Currie by Bob Johnstone
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After initially travelling south to London and working in the
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Carved bookshelf, originally carved for Cowdenknowes House
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Side altar and pulpit, Our Lady and St Andrews Church,
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Robert the Bruce statue at Stirling Castle

St Mary's Loch

Selkirk

James Hogg
St Mary's Loch
Robert the Bruce
Stirling Castle
Edie Ochiltree
Old Mortality
Scott Monument
Ettrick Forest
Denholm
James Hogg
Chatham Dockyard
Earlston
Royal Scottish Academy
Darnick
Melrose
Mungo Park
Selkirk
Robert the Bruce
Stirling Castle
Scott Monument
Abbotsford House
Edinburgh
Galashiels

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