List of public art in Hyde Park, London

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This is a list of public art in Hyde Park, London.

A Royal Park since 1536, Hyde Park covers an area of over 350 acres.[1] Its present landscaping dates largely to the 18th century, when Queen Caroline introduced the Serpentine among other features, and to the 1820s, when Decimus Burton made improvements including the park’s triumphal entrance at Wellington Arch.[2] This was originally crowned with a colossal equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, removed later in the 19th century. In the immediate vicinity of the arch, at Hyde Park Corner, there is a high concentration of military memorials;[3] this has been called "one of the world's most important groups of war memorials".[4]

Image Title / subject Location and
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Date Artist / designer Architect / other Type Designation Notes
Richard Westmacott - Wellington Monument 1822 - Achilles.jpg
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Wellington Monument

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Off Park Lane

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1822 Richard Westmacott N/A Statue Grade I Unveiled 18 June 1822. Wellington is represented symbolically by the hero Achilles, although the head is said to be modelled on the Duke’s.[5] The statue, partly inspired by the classical sculptures of the Dioscuri on the Quirinal Hill in Rome, was cast from captured French cannon.[6] The first public nude statue in London since antiquity.[5]
120x120px Dell Megalith The Dell, Hyde Park

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1861 John Thomas N/A Former drinking fountain N/A The remains of a drinking fountain originally formed of several large blocks of granite, possibly quarried at Moorswater, Cornwall. This became defunct in 1887 and only a single stone was still standing by 1900.[7]
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Boy and Dolphin Rose Garden, South Carriage Drive

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1863 Alexander Munro N/A Fountain with sculpture Grade II Moved in 1962 from Hyde Park to the Broad Walk, Regent’s Park. Returned to Hyde Park in 1994, in a different location from its original setting.[8]
120x120px Conduit House Memorial Serpentine Road

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1871 ? N/A Urn on plinth Grade II Marks the site of a conduit house which supplied the precinct of Westminster with water until the spring was cut off by drainage works in 1861. The building was demolished in 1868.[9]
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George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron Achilles Way traffic island, Park Lane

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1880 Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'. (Q19899493) N/A Statue Grade II Unveiled 24 May 1880. Inspired by a line from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–18): "To sit on rocks and muse o’er flood and fell". Byron is depicted with his Newfoundland dog, Bo’sun. The marble pedestal, supplied by the Greek government, was added in 1882.[10]
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Hyde Park Corner

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1888 Joseph Edgar Boehm Howard Ince Equestrian statue Grade II Unveiled 21 December 1888. The pedestal is flanked by four soldiers representing the four nations of the United Kingdom. Alfred Gilbert, an assistant in Boehm’s studio, claimed to have modelled the horse.[11]
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Diana Rose Garden, South Carriage Drive

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1899 Lady Feodora Gleichen N/A Fountain with sculpture N/A Made for the garden of Sir Walter Palmer’s house Frognal, in Ascot, Berkshire; presented to Hyde Park by Lady Jean Palmer in 1906.[12]
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Peace Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner

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1908–12 Adrian Jones Decimus Burton Quadriga Grade I (with arch) Unveiled 2 April 1912.[13] Burton originally intended for a quadriga to surmount his arch, but in 1845 an equestrian statue of Wellington was installed in its place. This was removed to Aldershot when the arch’s orientation was changed in 1883. Edward VII commissioned the present group, but did not live to see its completion.[14]
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Memorial to the Cavalry of the Empire Serpentine Road

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1924 Adrian Jones John James Burnet Equestrian sculpture with stone screen Grade II* Unveiled 21 May 1924[15] at Stanhope Gate; moved in 1961 for the widening of Park Lane.[5] The armour was based on that of the fifteenth-century effigy of the Earl of Warwick at St Mary’s, Warwick, the horse’s furniture on that found in Dürer’s engraving of Saint George.[15]
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Machine Gun Corps Memorial (David) Hyde Park Corner

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1925 Francis Derwent Wood N/A Memorial with sculpture Grade II* Unveiled 10 May 1925 by the Duke of Connaught. Re-erected on current location in 1962. The second bronze model for the figure stood in Chelsea Embankment Gardens from 1963 until it was stolen in the 1970s; it has been replaced by a replica.[16]
120x120px Memorial to William Henry Hudson West Carriage Drive

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1925 Jacob Epstein Eric Gill (lettering) Stone screen with relief sculpture Grade II Unveiled 19 May 1925 by Stanley Baldwin.[17] Located near the Bird Sanctuary erected in Hudson’s memory, the memorial depicts the bird-spirit Rima, a character from his novel Green Mansions (1904). A controversial early work by Epstein which was dubbed "the Hyde Park Atrocity" by its detractors.[18]
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Royal Artillery Memorial Hyde Park Corner

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1925 Charles Sargeant Jagger Lionel Pearson Memorial with sculpture Grade I Unveiled 18 October 1925 by the Duke of Connaught. The regiment demanded a "realistic" memorial and got one, crowned with a howitzer rendered in stone. The figure of a dead soldier shrouded in a greatcoat was still, however, found to be unsettling.[19]
George Lansbury memorial plaque, Hyde Park Lido.JPG Memorial to George Lansbury Hyde Park Lido Pavilion

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1953 Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'. (Q20639672) N/A Plaque N/A Lansbury established the Hyde Park Lido in 1930.[1] The plaque in his honour was installed as part of the post-War reconstruction of the Lido Pavilion.[20]
Mosaic in the Subway beneath the A40 Bayswater Road - geograph.org.uk - 627428.jpg Mosaics Marble Arch pedestrian subway

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1962 William Mitchell N/A Mosaics N/A Mitchell was chosen for this commission by the architect Sir Frederick Gibberd, with whom he had collaborated previously. The murals use a combination of traditional and experimental mosaic techniques. Another set of mosaics which was part of the same redevelopment scheme, at Hyde Park Corner, has been removed.[21]
Frothy fountain in Hyde Park - geograph.org.uk - 674847.jpg Four Winds Fountain Hyde Park, near Park Lane

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1963 Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'. (Q20639660) N/A Fountain with sculptural group N/A Unveiled 25 June 1963; the site was formerly occupied by Munro’s Boy and Dolphin (see above). Originally titled Joy of Life, this was the last commission of the Constance Fund. The fountain basins were redesigned and the work’s name changed in 2000–1.[22]
Little Nell, Hyde Park.JPG Little Nell Patte d’oie north of east end of Serpentine, Serpentine Road[23]

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1975 (after an original of 1896) after William Robert Colton N/A Fountain with sculpture N/A A replica in artificial stone of a lost Art Nouveau original, described as depicting a "winged child with fish".[7] The name "Little Nell" has apparently only been attached to the work more recently;[24] it has also been referred to variously as the "Colton Memorial" and the "Mermaid Fountain".[25]
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Norwegian War Memorial Hyde Park, west of Ranger’s Lodge

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1978 ? N/A Commemorative stone mounted on three smaller stones N/A A large Precambrian boulder mounted on three smaller stones. Presented by the Norwegian Navy and Merchant Fleet in thanks for Britain’s support in World War II.[26]
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Holocaust Memorial Hyde Park, east of the Dell

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1983 Mark Badger Richard Seifert; Derek Lovejoy and Partners Commemorative stones N/A Unveiled 28 June 1983; the first public memorial in Britain to victims of the Holocaust.[27] The largest boulder bears an inscription from Lamentations (3:48) in Hebrew and English: FOR THESE I WEEP/ STREAMS OF TEARS FLOW/ FROM MY EYES/ BECAUSE OF THE DESTRUCTION/ OF MY PEOPLE.
Household Cavalry Memorial.jpg Household Cavalry Memorial South Carriage Drive

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1985 ? N/A Raised slate floor plaque in hedge enclosure N/A Commemorates the four soldiers of the Blues and Royals regiment who were killed in the IRA bombing of 20 July 1982 near this spot.[7] The horses killed by the bomb are commemorated by a water trough, which was moved from the Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in 1985 to serve as a memorial.[28]
Memorial to Queen Caroline, Hyde Park in March 2011.jpg
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Queen Caroline Memorial
Caroline of Ansbach
Hyde Park, west of the Dell, overlooking the Serpentine

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1990 ? N/A Urn on plinth N/A Unveiled in 1990 by Queen Elizabeth II. Inscribed To the memory of/ QUEEN CAROLINE/ wife of George II/ for whom/ the Long Water/ and Serpentine/ were created/ between/ 1727–1731.[29]
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Queen Elizabeth Gate

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Hyde Park

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1993 David Wynne Giuseppe Lund Gates N/A Unveiled 6 July 1993 by Queen Elizabeth II.[30] Lund intended for the gates to be "feminine and fresh with the charm of an English garden", in contrast to their formal and "masculine" setting. There was much public criticism of the design.[31]
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Tile murals Hyde Park Corner pedestrian subway 1995 FreeForm Arts Trust N/A Tile murals N/A 900 m² of murals depicting the history of the area, painted by a team of six artists led by Alan Rossiter.[32]
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Reformers’ Tree

The Reform League

Hyde Park

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2001 Harry Gray Roz Flint Mosaic N/A Unveiled in July 2000 by Tony Benn.[33] Depicts a tree near this site which burnt down during the Reform League Riots in 1866, the stump of which became a notice board for political demonstrations.[5]
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Australian War Memorial Hyde Park Corner

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2003 Janet Laurence Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects Stone screen N/A A curving granite wall inscribed with the names of 24,000 Australian towns and villages and of battles in both World Wars. Water runs down parts of the wall and slabs up against it bear the country’s coat of arms and military badges.[34]
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Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain
Diana, Princess of Wales
Hyde Park, near West Carriage Drive and Rotten Row

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2004 Kathryn Gustafson N/A Fountain N/A Unveiled 6 July 2004 by Queen Elizabeth II.[35] A low, granite oval, 210 metres in circumference, with water coursing along it.[5] The fountain was plagued by blockages and injuries and had to be closed off twice for repairs in its first two years.[35]
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Animals in War Memorial Park Lane

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2004 David Backhouse N/A Stone screens with sculptures N/A Unveiled 24 November 2004 by Princess Anne. Two heavily laden mules are shown trudging towards an opening between two swelling Portland stone screens; beyond lies a grass mound with a cavorting horse and dog.[36]
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New Zealand War Memorial Hyde Park Corner

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2006 Paul Dibble John Hardwick-Smith Stelae N/A Unveiled 11 November 2006 by Queen Elizabeth II. Consists of 16 bronze X beams (or "standards"), six of which are arranged in the shape of the Southern Cross constellation.[37]
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7 July Memorial Hyde Park, near Park Lane

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2009 N/A Carmody Groarke Architects et al. Stelae
Unveiled 7 July 2009 by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, on the fourth anniversary of the terrorist bombings. The 52 victims are commemorated by stainless steel stelae.[38]
Sculpture of Isis in Hyde Park in the City of Westminster, London in spring 2013 (2).JPG
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Isis Hyde Park, near West Carriage Drive, overlooking the Serpentine

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2009 Simon Gudgeon N/A Sculpture N/A Unveiled 7 September 2009. 1,000 plaques around the base were sold to donors for personalised inscriptions at £1,000 each,[39] as a way of funding the park’s Isis Education Centre for introducing young people to the study of nature. Donated to the park by the Halcyon Gallery.[40]
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Freeman Family Drinking Fountain North Carriage Drive, near Marble Arch

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2009 David Harber N/A Drinking fountain N/A Unveiled 23 September 2009.[41] A stainless steel sphere decorated with petals of oxidised bronze.[42] Donated to the park by Michael Freeman, a property developer and trustee of the Royal Parks Foundation, and his wife.[43]
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Still Water Marble Arch

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2010 Nic Fiddian-Green N/A Sculpture N/A Unveiled 14 September 2010. The largest freestanding bronze sculpture in London at 33 ft high. Replaces a previous version temporarily installed on this site; commissioned by Sir Anthony Bamford and his wife, it is now on their estate in Daylesford, Gloucestershire.[44]

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