Statue of Jan Smuts, Parliament Square

Coordinates: 51°30′03″N 0°07′37″W / 51.50087°N 0.12690°W

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Statue of Jan Smuts
The statue in 2013

Artist	Jacob Epstein
Medium	Bronze sculpture
Subject	Jan Smuts
Location	London, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′03″N 0°07′37″W / 51.50087°N 0.12690°W / 51.50087; -0.12690

A life-size bronze statue of Jan Smuts by the British artist Jacob Epstein stands on the north side of Parliament Square in London, United Kingdom, between a statue of Lord Palmerston and a statue of David Lloyd George.^[1]

Description

The statue depicts him in his military uniform as a field marshal, leaning forward with his left leg advanced, as if walking forward. The statue stands on a pedestal of granite from South Africa, which bears the inscription JAN/ CHRISTIAN/ SMUTS/ 1870–1950.

History

After Winston Churchill won the general election in October 1951, he proposed erecting a statue in Parliament Square as a memorial to Smuts, who had died in September 1950. Churchill retired as prime minister in 1955, and was too ill to perform the unveiling in November 1956; it was unveiled instead by the Speaker of the House of Commons, William Morrison. The statue became a Grade II listed building in 1970.^[2]

References

^ "Statues". Greater London Authority. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
^ "STATUE OF FIELD MARSHAL JAN SMUTS, non Civil Parish - 1226373 | Historic England". Archived from the original on 23 June 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Statue of Jan Smuts, Parliament Square, London.

Jan Christian Smuts – Parliament Square, London, UK at Waymarking
Statue of Field Marshal Jan Smuts, National Heritage List for England Historic England
Smuts statue, londonremembers.com
Parliament Square Garden, london.gov.uk
The Statues of Parliament Square, Bowl Of Chalk – London Walking Tours, 12 November 2013
Parliament Square statues, Bob Speel
Smuts Statue Unveiled 1956, Pathé

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Parliament Square, London

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Clockwise from Southwest: Middlesex Guildhall
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12 Great George Street
- RICS
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Portcullis House
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Former

Buxton Memorial Fountain

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