Charles Doman
Charles Leighfield Jonah Doman was a British sculptor from Nottingham. He was born on 31 August 1884 and died on 19 March 1944 in Wimbledon, England. He was the son of George L. Doman, a stone carver. He trained at the Nottingham School of Art from 1897 to 1901, studied under Joseph Else, and later studied at the Royal College of Art in London from 1905 to 1908. He married Selina Maud Alton in 1908 in Nottingham.
His public sculptures include the Bust of Lord Trent at Highfields Park in Nottingham, a Civic Law sculpture at Nottingham Council House, and the Port of London Authority Building, completed in 1928. He taught sculpture at the Putney School of Art. In 1923 he became an associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and was elected a Fellow in 1938.
Doman designed the Allied Subjects' Medal for a War Office competition in 1921; the medal was issued in 1922. He also designed the 1928 Armistice Medal, issued by the Royal Mint to mark ten years since the end of the First World War.
He died in Wimbledon in 1944, leaving an estate of £2,892 1s 7d. Five works by or after Charles Doman are listed in the Art UK collection.
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