Albert Toft, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlbert Toft
English sculptor
Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1862
Place of Birth: Handsworth, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 18-Dec-1949
Profession: sculptor
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Albert Toft
- Albert Toft (3 June 1862 – 18 December 1949) was an English sculptor.Toft's career was dominated by public commemorative commissions in bronze, mostly single statues of military or royal figures.
- The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, Boer War to 1902, and then World War I to 1918, provided plentiful commissions.
- The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Toft as one of the major figures of the "New Sculpture" following on from William Hamo Thornycroft and George Frampton.
- Toft described his work as 'Idealist' but he also said of himself that "to become an idealist you must necessarily first be a realist." His father was a notable modeller in ceramics, and his brother was the landscape artist Joseph Alfonso Toft.
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