Edgar George Papworth Junior

Edgar George Papworth Jnr (25 June 1832 – 20 January 1927) was an English sculptor, who was popular in the later nineteenth century.

Papworth was born in the Marylebone district of London and came from a family long connected with stonework.^[1] His father was the sculptor Edgar George Papworth Senior (1809–66), and his grandfather Thomas Papworth (1773–1814), a stuccoist. His mother, Caroline, was the daughter of the sculptor Edward Hodges Baily.^[1]

Papworth, Junior showed more than fifty portrait busts at the Royal Academy between 1852 and 1882.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 1870, Papworth was chosen to make a statue of the Birmingham industrialist Josiah Mason, but Mason vetoed the proposal, and Papworth was paid 150 guineas in compensation. Eventually, a statue of Mason was created posthumously, by Francis John Williamson.^[4] Papworth's work then fell out of fashion, and he was not mentioned in a list of English sculptors compiled in 1901.^[1] He died at Bexleyheath, where he had lived since about 1911.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Edgar George Papworth Jnr: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951". sculpture.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
^ "Papworth, Edgar George Junior". V and A Collections. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
^ Ingrid, Roscoe; Hardy, Emma Elizabeth; Sullivan, M. G. (2009). A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300149654.
^ Thomas T. Harman (1885), Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham: A history and guide, arranged alphabetically: containing thousands of dates and references to matters of interest connected with the past and present history of the town – its public buildings, chapels, churches and clubs – its Friendly Societies and Benevolent Associations, philanthropic and philosophical institutions – its colleges and schools, parks, gardens, theatres, and places of amusement – its men of worth and noteworthy men, manufactures and trades, population, rates, statistics of progress, &c., &c., Cornish Brothers, p. 293, Wikidata Q66438509

External links

17 artworks by or after Edgar George Papworth Junior at the Art UK site

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[Gla-1] "Edgar George Papworth Jnr: Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951". sculpture.gla.ac.uk. University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2019.

[2] "Papworth, Edgar George Junior". V and A Collections. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2019.

[3] Ingrid, Roscoe; Hardy, Emma Elizabeth; Sullivan, M. G. (2009). A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300149654.

[Harman-4] Thomas T. Harman (1885), Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham: A history and guide, arranged alphabetically: containing thousands of dates and references to matters of interest connected with the past and present history of the town – its public buildings, chapels, churches and clubs – its Friendly Societies and Benevolent Associations, philanthropic and philosophical institutions – its colleges and schools, parks, gardens, theatres, and places of amusement – its men of worth and noteworthy men, manufactures and trades, population, rates, statistics of progress, &c., &c., Cornish Brothers, p. 293, Wikidata Q66438509

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