Albert Toft

Albert Toft was an English sculptor. His brother was the landscape artist Joseph Alfonso Toft.

His parents were Charles Toft and Rosanna Reevesborn, and he was born in Handsworth, then in Staffordshire, and now a suburb of Birmingham. He trained in Wedgwoods pottery and in 1881 won a scholarship to study sculpture at the South Kensington Schools under Professor douard Lantri. He received silver medals in his second and third years. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Toft as one of the major figures of New Sculpture following on from William Hamo Thornycroft and George Frampton. Toft described his work as Idealist but he also said of himself that to become an idealist you must necessarily first be a realist.

Source: Wikipedia