| Pauline Boumphrey | |
| Birth Name: | Pauline Firth |
| Birth Date: | 11 October 1886 |
| Birth Place: | Boston, USA |
| Death Place: | New York, USA |
| Nationality: | American |
| Known For: | Sculpture |
Pauline Boumphrey (Pauline Firth, later Pauline Firth Haworth; 11 October 1886 – 25 January 1959) was an American sculptor who spent the majority of her career working in Britain.[1]
Boumphrey was born in Boston in Massachusetts but was educated in Britain, attending Roedean School on the English south coast.[2] She settled in London and later lived at Sandiway in Cheshire.[3]
Boumphrey specialised in statuettes and small group compositions, often in bronze, and often of equine subjects.[3] [1] In 1925 she was awarded an honourable mention for a piece she showed at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris.[4] Boumphrey also exhibited works at the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in Glasgow and Edinburgh.[1] [3] She was a regular exhibitor with the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and was elected an associate member of that Academy in 1925.[2] Among the works she exhibited in Manchester was a 1942 design for a war memorial to the civilian victims of the Blitz.[5] Boumphrey died in New York in 1959.[1]