marble arch 8 the portman estate art walk Genre: Monument Artist: John Nash (1752- The Portman Estate Art Walk guides you through sherlock holmes 1835) Date: 1828-1833 Marylebone, on a whistle stop tour of the public art, 1 statue Location: Marble Arch, sculptures, statues and notable historic residents of Genre: Sculpture Oxford Street, Hyde Park field work the area. Artist: John Doubleday 9 (b.1947) Genre: Sculpture Date: 1999 Artist: Shauna McMullan Simply follow the map to navigate yourself around Location: Baker Street Date: 2009 Marylebone. The walk should take no longer than an hour Station Location: Portman Mews portland stone to complete, unless you decide to take advantage of one South 10 relief, 40 portman of the many cafes or restaurants within the Estate! square Genre: Sculpture If you would like to find out more about any of the Artist: John Carter, R.A Date: 2006 works of art along the way, please visit our website Location: 40 Portman Sq www.portmanestate.co.uk

aether 3 Genre: Sculpture Artist: Danny Lane, william pitt byrne (b.1955, Illinois), lives 2 memorial fountain and works in London Date: 2013 hamilton memorial Genre: Memorial Location: Marble Arch 12 drinking fountain Artist: Julia Clara Byrne House (nee Busk), (1819 -1894) portman square Genre: Memorial Date: 1862 11 gardens Artist: Unknown Location: South end of Date: 1878 Bryanston Square Genre: Various Location: Portman Square Artist: Various Gardens Date: Various Location: Portman Square nexus raoul wallenberg monument 4 Genre: Sculpture 5 10 portman square Artist: Robert Orchardson, Genre: Sculpture/ 13 Genre: Sculpture (b.1976, Glasgow) Artist: Kate Maestri 11 baker street, Date: 2007 Monument Date: 2014 london Location: York House, 45 Artist: Philip Jackson, 14 CVO, (b.1944, Inverness) Location: 10 Portman Seymour Street Genre: Sculpture Date: 1997 Square Artist: Alexander Location: Great Beleschenko Cumberland Place Date: 2011 Location: Reception, 11 Baker Street marylebone war 6 memorial Genre: Memorial/

Monument wallace fountain the wallace Artist: Sir Walter Tapper 15 16 collection R.A. (1861-1935), b. Bovey Genre: Sculpture Tracey Artist Charles-Auguste Genre: Museum Date: Dedicated c.1920 Lebourg Artist: Various Location: Corner of (1829-1906) Date: Bequeathed to the The Church of the Date: 1872/1959 nation in 1897 Annunciation, Bryanston Location: Manchester Location: Hertford House, Street Square Manchester Square

cumberland hotel 7 lobby Genre: Various turn over for more details Artist: Various Date: Various Location: Lobby of The about each piece of art Cumberland Hotel form we see today. The railings and gates The Wallace Collection is a national museum were erected in 1882-1886 but the railings which opened to the public in 1990. The the portman estate art walk 9 removed in 1942 as part of the war effort. 14 16 gallery is free admission and open 7 days a They were restored in 1972. The original week. William Pitt Byrne (1806 - 1861) was the Editor and Proprietor of The Morning Post, gates remain, with some fine examples of overthrow lanterns. The works of art on display were collected a Conservative daily newspaper that later 5 7 between c.1760 and 1880 by the first four merged with The Daily Telegraph. His mother Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard The gardens showcase a number of was the Gothic novelist, Charlotte Dacre. Wallace. After his death, his friends raised the funds field work sculptures by different artists, including David 11 baker street, london for the memorial which was designed by his Genre: Sculpture Breuer Well. These sculptures are regularly Genre: Sculpture The Wallace Collection is best known for widow, the author, Julia Clara Byrne – her Artist: Shauna McMullan rotated, helping to bring fresh modern art to Artist: Alexander Beleschenko its paintings by artists such as Titian, Hals, family were from Great Cumberland Place. those using and walking past the gardens Date: 2011 Date: 2009 Rembrandt and Velázquez and for its superb The couple married in 1842. collections of eighteenth-century French Following an invited competition, Shauna Alexander Beleschenko is an artist who has paintings, porcelain, furniture and gold boxes, raoul wallenberg monument cumberland hotel lobby McMullan was commissioned to create an spent over thirty years creating small to large the wallace collection probably the best to be found anywhere artwork for The Portman Estate. The resulting 12 scale architectural glass installations. From 3 Genre: Sculpture/Monument Genre: Various Genre: Museum outside France. artwork, Field Work is a carving of meadow traditional practise to innovative processes Artist: Philip Jackson, CVO, (b.1944, Artist: Various Artist: Various grasses in the lower stone panels of the his work is both about artistic intent and the Inverness) Date: Various Date: Bequeathed to the nation in 1897 Portman Mews building’s façade. Records search to release the potential within the Date: 1997 (unveiled by H.M.The Queen, The vast lobby is a stunning architectural show that the Estate, which lies just to the unique qualities of glass. 26/02/1997) space which combines contemporary art, north of Oxford Street, was largely farmland light and water features to dramatic effect. as late as the 1740s. The artwork acts as a The glass artwork at 11 Baker Street was the aether Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat Shifting patterns of coloured light from discrete reminder of the agricultural history result of using layers of glass to produce an historical plaques who led the rescue of more than 100,000 sculptural elements animate the public spaces, of the area artwork of varying depths that engaged both Genre: Sculpture Jews in Nazi occupied Hungary at the end while large scale artworks, colour-infused hamilton memorial drinking passers-by from a distance, and building users Artist: Danny Lane, (b.1955, Illinois), of the Second World War. He devised a lives and works in London structural elements and sophisticated A/V fountain who would see the glass at close range. michael faraday rose macaulay special type of Swedish passport, a Schutz displays generate a distinctive scene that is 10 a j Date: 2013 Pass, which offered protection to Hungarian (1791 - 1867) (1881 - 1958) part art gallery, part lounge. Genre: Memorial Two layers of glass gave three transparent 48 Blandford Street 11 Hinde Street 1 Jews. He was arrested and disappeared in Aether was commissioned by British Land Artist: Unknown surfaces to work with, creating an appearance Man of Science - apprentice here Writer lived and died here PLC and integrated into the design of the Budapest in 1945. Date: 1878 of depth due to the layering of painted forms. reception at Marble Arch House. Grade II Listed. Overlaid patterns in a multitude of shapes tom moore captain frederick Danny Lane moved to the UK to study art in The rear of the monument is draped in the 8 b k The Drinking fountain was donated by and configurations appear to weave in and (1779 - 1852) marryat (1792 - 1848) 1975 and has been working in London since Swedish flag and backed by copies of the out of one another, providing a rich tapestry 85 George Street 3 Spanish Place 40 portman square Lady Hamilton through the Metropolitan the 1980s. He is the leading exponent of glass Schutz Pass. Poet lived here Novelist lived here Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough of colours and patterns. sculpture. sherlock holmes statue Genre: Sculpture Association. It is inscribed to the memory of Philip Jackson is a renowned sculptor with Artist: John Carter, R.A john lennon george grossmith jr Genre: Sculpture Sir James Hamilton. c l Lane’s glass and metal sculptures combine an outstanding international reputation. Date: 2006 (1940 - 1980) (1874 - 1935) Artist: John Doubleday (b.1947) feats of design and engineering. He is His ability to convey the human condition 15 34 Montagu Square 3 Spanish Place Commissioned by Delancey Real Estate. Founded in 1859 the Association provided Date: 1999 particularly interested in exploring the through skilful use of body language is Musician and songwriter lived here Actor-Manager lived here Following an invited competition, John Carter free fresh water to many humans and beasts strength of glass under compression. legendary, producing figures both imposing in 1968 Commissioned by The Sherlock Holmes won the commission with a proposal for a at a time when ale and spirits were easier sir francis beaufort Lane has work in collections and public and operatic in their narrative and presence, Society and sponsored by Abbey National, stone relief (or ‘paperclip sculpture’) attached to obtain than water and most supplies mustapher reschid m (1774 - 1857) spaces worldwide. which are recognizable worldwide. whose former headquarters incorporated to the façade of the building. By selecting the contaminated. d pasha (1800 - 1858) 52 Manchester Street Sherlock Holmes’ fictional address, 221b same material as the building, the Portland 1 Bryanston Square Admiral and hydrographer lived here Baker Street. 6 Stone relief appears to be integrated Turkish statesman and Reformer lived 4 within the building’s façade, yet retains an 13 here as Ambassador in 1839 sake dean mahomed This is a Talking Statue, a programme which independence reinforced by its skewed form. n (1759-1851) brings public sculptures to life through scripts e elizabeth garrett 102 George Street, written by celebrated writers and voiced by marble arch John Carter is best known for his abstract anderson (1836 - 1917) The site of Britain’s first Indian noted actors, in this case Anthony Horowitz Genre: Monument sculptures. His work is frequently 20 Upper Berkeley Street Restaurant, the Hindoostanee Coffee and Ed Stoppard. Artist: John Nash (1752-1835) described as being a dialogue between The first woman to qualify as a doctor House. Date: 1828-1833 painting and sculpture. It consists mainly wallace fountain in Britain lived here Doubleday has created many other of constructed “wall-objects”, often with a nexus Genre: Sculpture mary seacole sculptures of famous people, such as Charlie Grade I Listed. mathematical basis. 10 portman square michael william balfe o Artist Charles-Auguste Lebourg f (1805-1881) Chaplin in Leicester Square and Isambard Genre: Sculpture John Nash was the favoured architect of the (1808 - 1870) Genre: Sculpture (1829-1906) 147 George Street, Kingdom Brunel at Paddington Station. Artist: Robert Orchardson, (b.1976, Prince Regent, later King George IV. 12 Seymour Street Artist: Kate Maestri Born in Jamaica she opened the Glasgow) marylebone war memorial Marble Arch was designed to be both Date: 1872/1959 Musical Composer lived here 11 Date: 2014 “British Hotel” behind the lines Date: 2007 a grandiose gateway to an expanded Grade II* Listed. Genre: Memorial/Monument alfred, lord during the Crimean War to provide Buckingham Palace and an exuberant Commissioned by British Land PLC and a The fountain is an example of a Wallace g 2 Commissioned by British Land PLC. Artist: Unknown milner (1854-1925) assistance to sick and convalescent celebration of British victories in the collaboration with the architects, Jestico + Drinking Fountain, which are found The definition of Nexus is “a central or Date: Dedicated c.1920 14 Manchester Square officers. Napoleonic Wars – a Triumphal Arch. Whiles. throughout Paris. focal point”, or “a connection or series of Grade II Listed. Statesman lived here connections linking two or more things” This memorial commemorates 69 members In 1872, Sir Richard Wallace (the collector special operations After the King’s death, Nash was sacked for Kate Maestri specialises in the innovative john hughlings p – both of which apply to Orchardson’s of the Parish who gave their lives in the First who gives his name to The Wallace executive (soe) overspending on the Buckingham Palace use of contemporary architectural glass. She h jackson (1835 - 1911) 64 Baker Street, sculpture. World War. Brothers 2 Collection) financed the design and project. Architect Edward Blore (1787-1879) works to commission in collaboration with 3 Manchester Square Sometimes referred to as the “Baker william pitt byrne memorial was commissioned to complete the works in portman square gardens architects and engineers across a wide range construction of drinking fountains to provide Robert Orchardson’s work draws upon Physician lived here Street Irregulars” and also known as fountain Walter Tapper designed the church, built in a more economic and practical fashion. of site-specific projects. Parisians with access to clean drinking water. elements like modernist architecture and Genre: Various “Churchill’s Secret Army”. 1912-13, but no documentation appears to He lived much of his early life in France. sir julius benedict Genre: Memorial design, utopian texts, or details from science Artist: Various have survived about the authorship of the In 1850 the Arch moved to its current The blue colour wash was created using hand i (1804-1885) Artist: Julia Clara Byrne (nee Busk), fiction films. These appropriated fragments Date: Various memorial. location, where it formed a grand entrance screen printed ceramic enamel with a mirror From Wallace’s own initial sketches, sculptor 2 Manchester Square (1819 -1894) are dislocated from their original cultural Portman Square is a private garden square. to Hyde Park for The Great Exhibition in pin stripe over laid. The ceramic enamel is Charles-Auguste Lebourg created the final Musical Composer lived and died Date: 1862 contexts, and any sense of their previous First laid out around 1780, it was completely 1851. The smaller side gates were also added printed and fired on to toughened, laminated design of four caryatids representing kindness, here functionality becomes skewed, or distant. re-landscaped in the early 1900s to give the Grade II Listed in 1851. glass. simplicity, charity and sobriety. the portman estate art walk 40 PORTMAN SQUARE LONDON W1H 6LT

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