C. J. Allen (sculptor)

Charles John Allen (1862–1956) was a British sculptor, a figure in the New Sculpture movement.

Born in Greenford, Middlesex, Allen studied at the Lambeth School of Art and then apprenticed with the London architectural sculpture firm Farmer & Brindley in 1879 and became the assistant to Hamo Thornycroft for four years. In 1894 Allen moved to Liverpool, where he spent more than thirty years as a respected teacher at the University of Liverpool and Vice-Principal at the Liverpool City School of Art.

Work at:

• two allegorical panels for St. George's Hall, Liverpool, 1894
• work at the Liverpool University College (now University of Liverpool) with architect Alfred Waterhouse, 1895
• frieze for the Royal Insurance Building, Liverpool, c. 1897
• panels and other work for the Peres Bank, Leicester, c. 1900
• the 1906 monument to Queen Victoria, Liverpool, Allen's masterwork^[1]
• architectural sculpture for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Building, 1927
• choir stall canopies and the font in Ullet Road Unitarian Church, Liverpool

References

• online biography and portrait

1. Sharples, Joseph; Pollard, Richard (2004). Liverpool. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0300102581. Retrieved February 4, 2013.