Hamo Thornycroft
(1850-1925), Sculptor; son of Thomas Thornycroft and Mary ThornycroftSir (William) Hamo Thornycroft
Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 16 portraits
Artist of 4 portraits
Sir (William) Hamo Thornycroft trained in his father's studio and in 1869 entered the Royal Academy Schools, where he benefited from the teaching of Lord Leighton. In 1872 he travelled via France to Italy. In Paris he was impressed by the work of such nineteenth-century sculptors as Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Francois Rude and Paul Dubois, and in Italy he particularly admired the work of the early Renaissance masters Ghiberti, Donatello and Verrocchio.
by Theodore Blake Wirgman
pen and ink, 1880
NPG 2218
by Sir Leslie Ward
watercolour, pencil and Chinese white, 1891-1892
NPG 3933
Selecting Committee, Royal Academy, circa 1892
by Reginald Cleaver
pen and ink, circa 1892
NPG 4245
by Maull & Fox
albumen cabinet card, 1880s
NPG x12595
by and published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, after Frank Dudman, for Joseph Parkin Mayall
photogravure, 1883, published 1884
NPG Ax27826
Hamo Thornycroft with his statue of Charles George Gordon
by F.W. Edwards
albumen cabinet card, 15 October 1887
NPG x12593
Hamo Thornycroft with his statue of Charles George Gordon
by F.W. Edwards
platinotype cabinet card, 15 October 1887
NPG x12594
by Ralph Winwood Robinson, published by C. Whittingham & Co
platinum print, circa 1889, published 1892
NPG x7395
by Done & Ball
albumen cabinet card, early 1890s
NPG x12596
by Fradelle & Young
carbon print, 4 November 1899
NPG x19022
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1900s?
NPG x1104
possibly by Richard Williams Thomas, published by Raphael Tuck & Sons
bromide postcard print, circa 1901
NPG x197699
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print in window mount, 1917
NPG x166747
by Walter Stoneman
half-plate glass negative, 1917
NPG x20703
by Walter Stoneman
whole-plate glass negative, 1917
NPG x43681
Hamo Thornycroft ('Men of the Day. No. 533.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 20 February 1892
NPG D44582
Related People
- John Francis (grandfather)
- Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (nephew)
- Agatha (née Cox), Lady Thornycroft (wife)
- Sir John Edward Thornycroft (nephew)
- Sir John Isaac Thornycroft (brother)
- Mary Thornycroft (née Francis) (mother)
- Mary Alyce Thornycroft (sister)
- Thomas Thornycroft (father)
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