1796 - 1848

Sculptor. Born in Andover (Hants), into a family of West Country stonemasons, he came to London and enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools in 1810. He subsequently became a pupil and then an assistant of Francis Chantrey. As a prolific sculptor of busts and funerary monuments, Ternouth continued the traditions of Chantrey. Some of his church monuments, such as the full-length statue of the Rev. William Shipley (1828) in St Asaph Cathedral, are ambitious in scale. His ideal figures include a Penitent, shown at the Westminster Hall exhibition in 1844, and a Reclining Nymph, shown at the Suffolk Street Exhibition of the Society of British Artists in 1837. The latter was found by the Observer to be “faultlessly beautiful”. Ternouth’s most pretsigious commissions were for the relief of the Battle of Copenhagen for Nelson’s Column (see entry) and for the figures of St George and Britannia (1847) for the East front of Buckingham Palace (since removed).