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.

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

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. "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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