cbnewham @parishchurches.org · Mar 30 1 / 3
Life-size Angels The memorial to William Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian (d.1870), at St Andrew, Blickling (Norfolk), is the work of G. F. Watts. A painter turned sculptor, Watts produced both the recumbent effigy and the life-size standing angels. It is large, eye-catching, and unmistakably his.
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Presumably the Jedburgh Abbey tomb is a copy? bsky.app/profile/drui...
William Kerr was born in 1832 and was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. A collector of books and art, he was a patron of Watts, and the author of two books: one on Italian medieval art, the other on the Confederacy in America.
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