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Watson, Musgrave Lewthwaite
(b Carlisle, 24 Jan 1804; d London, 28 Oct 1847). English sculptor. After training as a solicitor in Carlisle, he moved in 1824 to London, where he met John Flaxman. He studied briefly at the Royal Academy Schools and was at the same time a pupil of Richard Sievier; but on Flaxman’s advice he went to Italy, where he worked from 1825 to 1828. On his return he assisted Francis Chantrey, Sir Richard Westmacott, William Behnes and Edward Hodges Baily. They recognized Watson’s talent, but he received major commissions only from 1842. These include the colossal marble monument to the brothers Lord Eldon and Lord Stowell (1842; Oxford, U. Coll.), Elizabeth I (marble, 1844; London, Royal Exch.), Major Francis Aglionby (marble, 1843) and Lord Lonsdale (marble, 1845; both Carlisle, Assize Courts), and John Flaxman (marble, 1843–7; London, U. Coll.). His most successful work is the posthumously completed bronze relief, the Battle of St Vincent, for the Nelson Memorial (1850; London, Trafalgar Square). This shows Watson’s emergence from stylistic dependence on Flaxman into a robust realism, anticipating John Henry Foley.
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