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Col. Jabara
USAF Academy
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Born near Maldon in 1947, John Doubleday has lived most of his life in the nearby village of Great Totham. He studied sculpture at Goldsmiths College, long before it was fashionable. He is renowned internationally for his public sculpture, which has been a feature of his career since the mid-seventies.
His work is to be seen in many countries - almost all of it is figurative, cast in bronze, and mostly it is based on portraiture. The most recent commissions have been in heroic scale. Completed recently have been a sculpture of Col Jabara, (the first jet air ace), for the USAF Academy, Colorado Springs; An eagle sited near Peterborough, in England, which commemorates those French prisoners of the Napolionic War who did not survive to return to France; A large work in his own locality to commemorate the confrontation between the Saxons and the Vikings at the Battle of Maldon in August 991 and the sculpture of Nelson to commemorate the bicentenary of Trafalgar, installed adjacent to the Trafalgar Cemetary in Gibraltar.
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Nelson
Gibraltar (Bicentenial memorial) |
Double-take would describe his two representations of Sherlock Holmes: The first was erected at Meiringen on the Sherlock Holmes Society of London pilgrimage to the Reichenbach Falls of 1991 and the second was installed outside Baker Street Station in 1999. He also has done two sculptures of Charlie Chaplin, the first in Leicester Square, the second in Vevey, Switzerland. In a similar vain, he has done two statues of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, at Bristol and Paddington Station in London.
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Sir Laurence Olivier
Nat. Inst. of Film and Drama,
Beijing, PRC |
HIS PUBLIC WORKS INCLUDE:
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Battle of Maldon Monument, Blackwater Estuary, Essex |
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| 2005 |
Nelson, Gibraltar (Bicentenial memorial) |
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| 2004 |
Jimmy Jabara, USAF Academy, Colorado Springs |
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| 2003 |
Sangliers, Chateau Pas de Loup, Saumur (with a second cast in Provence) |
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| 2001 |
Child in the Park, Billericay |
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| 2000 |
The Dorset Shepherd, Dorchester |
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| 1999 |
Sherlock Holmes, Marylebone Road, London |
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| 1998 |
Gerald Durrell, Jersey |
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| 1996 |
Nelson Mandela, U.W.C., South Africa, Singapore, Trieste and Bombay |
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| 1994 |
J N Pflug, Braith Mali Museum, Biberach |
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| 1993 |
Relief Panels for B L P R W, Headquarters, Abuja, Nigeria |
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| 1992 |
Graham Gooch, County Square, Chelmsford |
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| 1991 |
Sherlock Holmes, Town Square, Meiringen, Switzerland |
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| 1987 |
Sir Laurence Olivier, Nat. Inst. of Film and Drama, Beijing, PRC |
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| 1986 |
The Royal Marines Commando Memorial, CRCRM Lympstone, Devon |
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| 1985 |
Pheonix and Four Elements, Freshford House, Bristol |
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| 1984 |
Dylan Thomas, Swansea, Wales |
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The Beatles, Liverpool |
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| 1982 |
Caduceus, Harvard Community Health Plan, Boston, Massachusetts |
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Bristol and Paddington, London (two works) |
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Charlie Chaplin, Montreux, Switzerland |
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| 1981 |
Charlie Chaplin, Leicester Square, London |
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Mary and Child Christ, Rochester Cathedral |
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| 1978 |
Regeneration, Ky Ank, Vietnam |
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| 1977 |
Ratu Sukuna, Parliament Square, Suva, Fiji |
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| 1976 |
H R H Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Royal Marines Museum |
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Earl Mounbatten of Burma, Broadlands, Hampshire |
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Golda Meir, Presidential Residence, Jerusalem |
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| 1975 |
H M King Olav of Norway, Royal Palace, Oslo, Norway |
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| 1974 |
Dr Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
| Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Herbert F Johnson Museum, Ithaca, N.Y. |
| The Minories, Colchester |
British Museum, London |
| National Museum of Wales |
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle |
| Royal Marines Museum , Eastney |
Tate Gallery, London |
| Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough |
Harris Museum, Preston |
| Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
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