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Events relating to sculpture
Italian sculptor Antonio Canova sets up his studio in Rome and begins producing finely modelled nudes in the Greek style
French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon crosses the Atlantic to sculpt a statue of George Washington from the life at Mount Vernon
Wellington is presented with a twice-life-size nude marble statue, by Canova, of his vanquished enemy Napoleon
The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square
The Statue of Liberty, by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, is assembled in Paris before being shipped across the Atlantic
The Statue of Liberty, after crossing the Atlantic, is erected on Bedloe's island in the approach to New York harbour
An aluminium statue of Eros, by English sculptor Alfred Gilbert, is unveiled in Piccadilly Circus
The sculptor Aristide Maillol has his first one-man exhibition, at the Galerie Vollard in Paris
The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London
Aristide Maillol has his first major success with a large sculpture at the Salon d'Automne in Paris
Jacob Epstein causes a stir with his provocatively modern angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise
Marcel Duchamp creates Bicycle Wheel, his first 'assisted readymade', consisting of the wheel screwed upside down on a painted wooden stool
Italian Futurist sculptor Umberto Boccioni suggests human movement in his Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast
Marcel Duchamp exhibits his first pure 'readymade', a bottle rack bought in a department store and displayed without alteration
The Russian painter and sculptor Vladimir Tatlin develops an abstract style to which he gives the name Constructivism
The sculptor Constantin Brancusi has his first one-man exhibition, at Stieglitz's gallery in New York
Jacob Epstein completes his sculpture The Rock Drill, the outstanding work of the Vorticist movement
Eric Gill completes his Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral
Vladimir Tatlin's model for a gigantic Monument to the Third International becomes one of the most significant examples of Constructivism
Marcel Duchamp completes his large glass construction The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore
English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground
English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London
English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London
