Henry Richard Hope-Pinker

Henry Richard Hope-Pinker (1850 – 3 August 1927) was a British sculptor, notable for his portraits and statues of contemporary Victorian figures.

Biography[edit]

Hope-Pinker was born in Peckham in southeast London. His father was a builder and master mason, based in Hove, where Hope-Pinker received some training in stone carving before entering the Royal Academy Schools in London.^[1] Working in London, Hope-Pinker became a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and was a specialist in portrait busts of high-profile contemporary figures.^[2] He carved several statues, including one of Charles Darwin, for the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.^[3] His bust of Henry Fawcett is in the National Portrait Gallery in London, which also hold two of his other works.^[2]^[4]

Bust of George Rolleston, 1856, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Statue of Queen Victoria, 1894, Georgetown, Guyana^[5]
Statues of Charles Darwin, John Hunter, Thomas Sydenham and Roger Bacon, Oxford University Museum of Natural History^[3]
Statue of Henry Fawcett, Market Place, Salisbury^[1]
Statue of William Edward Forster, 1890, Victoria Embankment Gardens, London^[6]
Bust of Joseph Prestwich, c. 1901, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Bust of Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Bust of John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, 1907 Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Several busts and statuettes of James Martineau^[7]
Terracotta medallion of Robert Henry Soden Smith, 1884, Victoria and Albert Museum, London^[8]

^ ^a ^b University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Henry Richard Hope-Pinker". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
^ ^a ^b James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0902028553.
^ ^a ^b "HR Pinker". Courtauld Institute of Art. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
^ "Henry Richard Hope-Pinker". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
^ "Hew Locke challenges Empire in Birmingham". Hyperallergic. 17 June 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
^ Historic England. "Statue of William Edward Forster (1066178)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
^ "James Martineau". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
^ "Robert Henry Soden Smith MA (1822-1890)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2023.