Arthur George Walker was an English sculptor and painter. Among his best-known works are several war memorials and the statue of Florence Nightingale in Waterloo Place, London.
Self portrait
Image: Ironbridge war memorial (8529) (cropped)
Image: The War Memorial in Heston near St Leonards Church panoramio (cropped)
Image: South African war memorial geograph.org.uk 1109642 (cropped)
Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. Nightingale gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.
Nightingale, c. 1860
Embley Park in Hampshire, now a school, one of the family homes of William Nightingale
Young Florence Nightingale
Painting of Nightingale by Augustus Egg, c. 1840s