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Ferguson, Daniel MacGregor
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1841-1912
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Daniel MacGregor Ferguson, a descendent of Rob Roy MacGregor, was born in Stirlingshire and studied drawing and modelling at the Glasgow School of Art, under John Mossman and William Mossman II. Among prizes won, the International Gold Medal for Sculptors in 1870 was the most prestigous, but he also received the Walter Macfarlane prize for best figure modelled from life, and a prize for drawing from the cast the same year.
He initially worked as a wood carver, recorded at 122 Berkley Street in 1860, later becoming an assistant to John Mossman, working on his statues of David Livingstone (1879) and Norman Macleod (1881), both in Cathedral Square, Glasgow. He also produced bronze medallion portraits for monuments in cemeteries in Glasgow, Helensburgh and Stirling.
Ferguson later became Chief Assistant to James Young and worked on his architectural sculpture in the 1880s.
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- GSA Records
- www.glasgowsculpture.com