Alice Mary Chaplin was born in Sudbury Suffolk. Chaplin moved to London to study sculpture and settled in Chelsea. She produced statuettes and sculpture groups, often of animals, in bronze and terracotta. This is a plaster model of two lovebirds for a door-knocker. Between 1877 and 1900, Chaplin exhibited 18 works at the Royal Academy in London. She exhibited a statuette of a puma at the 1903 Arts and Crafts exhibition in London. Chaplin died at Fulham in London in 1921.
