Hylas by Henry Alfred Pegram (1862-1937). Bronze. Completed 1922, and installed here in 1933 in St Johns Lodge Garden

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Hylas by Henry Alfred Pegram (1862-1937). Bronze. Completed 1922, and installed here in 1933. St John's Lodge Gardens, Regent's Park, London. Although Robert Sharp suggests that Pegram's "greatest successes came earlier rather than later in his career," this group is very striking — and indeed Sharp himself numbers it among his "notable 'ideal' works." It is beautifully and appropriately sited in the middle of the pool in these rather secluded gardens, easily missed by visitors to the main part of Regent's Park. Hylas was one of the Argonauts, a handsome youth loved by Hercules. He was sent to get water from a spring, but captured by the admiring water nymphs, never to be seen again (see Bullfinch 164).

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