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Webster Monument

            The sculptor Hamo Thornycroft produced a memorial to Webster that remains today in St. Dunstan’s Church in Cranbrook. Commissioned by Webster’s wife, a figure about whom little is known, the memorial was completed in 1890 and described in The American Architect and Building News:

The tablet is of white marble, with a dove marble margin, and is about 9 feet by 6 inches in length, by 4 feet in height. The figure of the deceased painter is represented in a recumbent position with the hands on the breast clasping a Bible and paint brushes. An angel kneels at the head holding a palm branch, and another at the feet with a wreath of immortelles. The angels are represented by winged boys, typical of the characters the deceased artist was so fond of portraying.

The memorial serves as a reminder of Webster’s life and a testament to the love he had for his wife, his art, and his life in Cranbrook.

Thomas Webster RA (March 10, 1800 – September 23, 1886), was an English painter of genre scenes of school and village life, many of which became popular through prints. He lived for many years at the artists' colony at Cranbrook in Kent.

Webster became known for his genre paintings, often with children as subjects, depicting incidents from everyday life in a genial and humorous way. Many of these were exceedingly popular, particularly his Punch (1840) with which he procured associate membership of the Royal Academy.

In the limited range of subjects which he made his own, Webster was unrivalled. Some of his pictures - such as Please remember the Grotto, Snowballing and maybe The Swing - were issued as prints by Abraham Le Blond. The Smile (1841), The Frown and The Boy with Many Friends, are among the numerous pictures which became well known by engravings. He also contributed work to volumes issued by the London-based Etching Club: The Deserted Village (1841), Songs of Shakespeare (1843), and Etch'd Thoughts (1844).

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Taken on: June 4, 2011

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