Henry Apperly

Also known as Henry Apperley
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Sculptor)
Henry Apperly was a sculptor and carver. He may have come to Australia in search of gold, but as of 1854 he hadn't yet found his fortune, being listed as a sculptor in the Melbourne directories.
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sculptor and carver, may have come to Australia in search of gold. He was listed as a sculptor in Melbourne directories from 1854 and exhibited work at various Victorian exhibitions. In 1868 he settled in Sydney where he executed the carving (designed by Thomas Duckett) on the Redfern and Haslem’s Creek (Rookwood) Mortuary terminal buildings for Colonial Architect James Barnet. At the Melbourne Exhibition of 1872-73 he exhibited a statue of Summer and a Statue representing Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, 1789, the latter presumably a cast of the plaster copy Apperly made of the Wedgwood Sydney Cove medallion, originally designed by Henry Webber and modelled by William Hackwood (not a statue). He donated another of these replicas to the Sydney Free Public Library before 1871 (now Mitchell Library). His son Henry Wellstead Apperly was born in Melbourne in 1861 and educated at Fort Street and Sydney Grammar (see Fred Johns, Who’s Who in Australia, 1927-8).

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1999
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2011

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