William Grant Stevenson

Who is William Grant Stevenson?

William Grant Stevenson was a Scottish sculptor and painter. He was born in Ratho, located west of Edinburgh. His elder brother David Watson Stevenson was also a sculptor and an elected member of the Royal Scottish Academy.

William Grant Stevenson is most famous for his colossal bronze figure of Sir William Wallace, which stands on a high plinth of roughly hewn pink granite overlooking Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen. His bronze Robert Burns exists in at least two casts: the original is in Kilmarnock in Scotland as the centrepiece of the Burns Monument, Kilmarnock, and a copy is located on the east side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He published the book Wee Johnnie Paterson in 1915.