"Boy with a Dolphin" by David Wynne (1975) - Chelsea Embankment

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At the level where Oakley Street meets the Chelsea Embankment, opposite the Albert Bridge. The terrace house behind with a brick and stone elevation is ca 1840, like most of Oakley Street.
David Wynne (b. 1926) was born in London, and seems to have had no formal art training. His figurative sculpture concentrates on movement, and includes most notably Girl With Doves (1970), The Dancers (1971) and Dancer with Bird (1975), all in Cadogen Square Gardens. Other works in London are Girl with a Dolphin and Boy with a Dolphin, the latter being at the Chelsea School of Art. In the 1950s Wynne was concerned mainly with animal sculptures, and his Guy the Gorilla is in the Crystal Palace Gardens (Guy was the most famous gorilla at London Zoo).