Edgar George Papworth Junior Explained

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. 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.

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. He died at Bexleyheath, where he had lived since about 1911.

References

  1. Web site: 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. 2019-01-11.
  2. Web site: Papworth, Edgar George Junior . 2019-01-11. V and A Collections. 2019-01-11.
  3. Book: A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851 . Ingrid . Roscoe . Hardy . Emma Elizabeth . Sullivan . M. G. . Yale University Press . 2009 . 978-0300149654.
  4. 293.