Edward Hurst fl 1691 - 1714 - Statuary at Hyde Park Corner.

 

Edward Hurst (fl 1691 - 1714). 

Statuary at Hyde Park Corner.

Hurst had a property rated at £12 in Portugal Row in 1699 and by 1714 he owned two further properties in the area.

In 1716 John Nost II, the cousin of John van Nost I, took over one of these properties and in 1717 Hurst took over the property of Richard Osgood (fl. 1691 - 1724) and was still living in the area in 1720.

Hurst Signs the monument of John Bohun and his wife Mary and daughter Mary at Holy Trinity, Coventry. (below) 

Info above from Dictionary of Sculptor pub Yale 2009.

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Lead Shepherdess at Charlecote Park. Warwickshire.

168 cms.

National Trust.

image from - 

https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/533387




























John Bohun and his wife Mary and daughter Mary at Holy Trinity, Coventry.

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Monument to Gilbert Lort of Stackpoole, Pembs.

1698

The monument has been removed.

Image from Darts Westmonasterium

Westminster Abbey.


The monument to Sir Gilbert, by sculptor Edward Hurst, in the chapel of St John the Evangelist has been greatly reduced and only the tablet now remains on the wall. Two cherubs from the monument are preserved in the Abbey precincts (Little Cloister and St Catherine's chapel garden). 

The arms of Lort were shown - "per fess azure and gules, a cross or, an escutcheon of Ulster".

 

The inscription reads:

 

Sacred to the dear memory of her loving brother SR.GILBERT LORT of Stackpoole in the county of Pembrook [Pembroke], Bart [Baronet] the onely son of Sr. JOHN LORT Bart. deceased, by the Right Honourable DAME SUSANNA one of the daughters of the Right Honourable John, Lord Holles late Earle of Clare, who changed this life for a better on the XIX day of September MDC XC VIII in the XXVIII year of his age. DAME ELIZABETH CAMPBELL widdow and relict of Sr. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL late of Calder in the Kingdom of Scotland Kt. hath dedicated this monument.

He succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1673 and died unmarried so his titles became extinct and his estates passed to his sister. He was buried on 27th September 1698.






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Monument to Elizabeth Saunderson.

St Michael's, Glentworth, Lincs.

Elizabeth Saunderson was the daughter of Sir John Wray, great grandson of Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief Justice of England, whose tomb is also in the church.

















Images above from -

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2618980




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