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Adam Brown · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: William Brodie (1815-1881)

William Brodie was born in Banff in 1815. He was the son of a shipmaster who moved to Aberdeen with his family. William was apprenticed as a plumber and studied at the Aberdeen Mechanics Institute, where he began casting small figures in lead. He developed onto modelling medallion portraits and in 1847 moved to Edinburgh to study at the Trustees School of Design, where he learnt to model on a larger scale.

He was elected Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1851, RSA in 1859 and became Secretary of the RSA (Royal Scottish Academy) in 1876.

Some of works in bronze include: Greyfriars Bobby; A Peer and his Lady Doing Homage’ (1875) for the Prince Albert Memorial in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh and Sir James Young Simpson on Princes Street

Some works in stone are the monument to Dugald Stewart on Calton Hill, as well as several on the Scott Monument - Jeanie Deans, The Earl of Leicester, Amy Robsart, Edith of Lorn, Oliver Cromwell, Helen MacGregor, and Madge Wildfire.
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