Episode 1244
Herbert Maryon
Wed, 2020-Sep-30 00:56 UTC
Length - 3:57
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Herbert James Maryon, OBE, FSA, FIIC (9 March 1874 – 14 July 1965) was an English sculptor, conservator, goldsmith, archaeologist and authority on ancient metalwork. Maryon effectively had two careers. He practiced and taught sculpture until retiring in 1939, then worked as a conservator with the British Museum from 1944 until 1961. He is best known for his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, which lead to his appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
By his mid-twenties Maryon had attended three art schools, apprenticed in silversmithing with C. R. Ashbee, and worked in Henry Wilson's workshop. From 1900 to 1904 he served as the director of the Keswick School of Industrial Art, where he designed and exhibited numerous Arts and Crafts works. After moving to the University of Reading and then Durham University, he taught sculpture, metalwork, modelling, casting, and anatomy until 1939; he also designed the University of Reading War Memorial, among other commissions. Maryon published two books while teaching, including the standard Metalwork and Enamelling, and more than a dozen articles. He frequently led archaeological digs, and in 1935 discovered one of the oldest gold ornaments known in Britain while excavating the Kirkhaugh cairns.
In 1944 Maryon was brought out of retirement to work on the Sutton Hoo finds. His responsibilities included restoring the shield, the drinking horns, and the iconic Sutton Hoo helmet, which proved academically and culturally influential. Maryon's work, much of which was revised in the 1970s, created credible renderings upon which subsequent research relied; likewise, one of his papers coined the term pattern welding to describe a method employed on the Sutton Hoo sword to strengthen and decorate iron and steel. The initial work ended in 1950, and Maryon turned to other matters. He proposed a widely publicised theory in 1953 on the construction of the Colossus of Rhodes, influencing Salvador Dalí and others, and restored the Roman Emesa helmet in 1955. He left the museum in 1961, a year after his official retirement, and began an around-the-world trip lecturing and researching Chinese magic mirrors.
Maryon is remembered as one of the finest conservators who combined deep technical, artistic, and historical understandings of the objects he worked on. His works remain influential, particularly Metalwork and Enamelling, which remains in print more than a century after its first publication.
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