Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook

Canadian artist

Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, CM, O. Ont (7 November 1913 – 23 February 2009) was a Canadian portrait sculptor, medal designer, and liturgical artist.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, on November 7, 1913, Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook was the great great granddaughter of the Hon. John Willson, the first speaker for the House in Upper Canada. Holbrook studied at the Hamilton Art School (1928–31), Ontario College of Art (1932 35), Royal College of Art in London, England (1936) and at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (1948). She studied with such artists as Hortense Gordon, John S. Gordon, John Sloan, Gustav Hahn, Emanuel Hahn, Rowley Murphy, and Carl Milles. She was a lecturer in Sculpture at the Dundas Valley School of Art from 1965 to 1969., She also produced a bronze bust of Colonel George Stanley, a former Royal Military College professor, who designed the Canadian Flag. For the Federal Building, Hamilton, Ontario, she completed eight large mezzo relief stone panels depicting wildlife and industry. In 1996, she completed a sculpture of George Bernard Shaw for the then new plaza in Niagara on the Lake. Her last commissioned sculptures were of Conrad Black and his wife Barbara Amiel created in 2000 and 2002 respectively.

Holbrook died of natural causes in Hamilton on February 23, 2009. She is buried at St. John's Anglican Church, Ancaster, Ontario alongside her husband "Jack" Holbrook and her son William "Billy" Holbrook. The family is interred next to a liturgical headstone designed by Holbrook.

Holbrook mentored and influenced Canadian sculptor Christian Cardell Corbet.