Florence Callcott

Florence Callcott Florence Newman (1866 – 21 January 1938) was a British sculptor of portrait medallions and medals.

Biography Callcott was born in the St James area of central London and studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. She first exhibited a work at the Royal Academy in 1890 and then regularly at leading commercial galleries until 1930. Callcott worked in bronze, wax and plaster on a wide variety of subjects. She specialised in creating portrait medallions and showed examples at the Paris Salon in both 1897 and 1904 and at the Royal Academy in 1906 and 1907.