known for "The Ramshaw Flood" (1848), but declined into vagrancy and poverty, dying at Lanchester Workhouse only a year after John Graham's death. Works Lough's public works include a statue of Lord Collingwood in Tynemouth, a memorial to Thomas Noon Talfourd, in the Shire Hall, Stafford, and the bronze George Stephenson memorial of 1862, opposite the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Newcastle upon Tyne. In London, he produced the monuments to Henry Montgomery Lawrence and to Bishop Middleton in St Paul's Cathedral, and made the Queen Victoria and Prince Albert for the Royal Exchange. In Canterbury Cathedral, he was responsible for the monuments to Bishop Broughton, and to Lt Col Frederick Mackeson. Lough produced many ideal works on classical, historical and literary themes, including a series of marble statues of Shakespearean subjects for his chief patron Matthew, 4th Baronet Ridley. Although he was a prolific sculptor, he was also a controversial one, as his work divided opinion about its merits. The Literary Gazette was a fervent supporter, proclaiming his first exhibition as a demonstration of his "extraordinary genius" and a later sculptural group as a work which "nineteen out of twenty people would prefer ... to any other work in the exhibition." The Art Journal was just as fervently critical, damning his statue of Queen Victoria for the Royal Exchange as "an odiously coarse production, in which not one feature of the Queen is recognisable", and of such "gross vulgarity" that it exceeded "the worst production that has ever been publicly exhibited." Bibliography John Lough (Author), Elizabeth Merson (Contributor), John Graham Lough, 1798–1876: A Northumbrian Sculptor Boydell & Brewer Inc (1987) References Sources Biography of John Graham Lough at The Grove Dictionary of Art. Retrieved May 2007 John Graham Lough Short Biography at Tiscali Myweb. Retrieved May 2007 Biography of John Graham Lough The Consett Story Written and Compiled By Consett Lions' Club Volume One. December 1963 . Retrieved May 2007 Birthplace Photo County Durham Archive. Retrieved May 2007 John Graham Lough: A Transitional Sculptor T. S. R. Boase, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 23, No. 3/4 (Jul. – Dec. 1960), pp. 277–290. At JSTOR. Retrieved May 2007 North East honours its neglected sculptor – the Guardian review of Lough exhibition at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, December 2011 External links 1789 births 1876 deaths 19th-century English male artists English male sculptors Burials at