Beatrice Figure, 1860, made by Edgar George Papworth Jr., now in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "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.
  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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