Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Sir George James Frampton (1860-1928), Sculptor and craftsman
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Sculptor and craftsman, father of Meredith Frampton; born 18 June 1860, in London. Trained at South London Art School, Royal Academy Schools 1881–7 and in Paris 1888–90 following success at RA, where he exhibited 1887–1927; elected ARA 1894, RA 1902; close friend of Arthur Hacker; knighted 1908; Master, Art Workers Guild 1902; President, Society of British Sculptors 1911–12; died 21 May 1928, in London.
From the 1890s Frampton was influenced both by Arts and Crafts principles and by European Symbolists, with whom he exhibited in Venice, Brussels and Vienna. His work is notable for polychromy and mixed materials, though he also executed traditional sculptures in bronze and stone, including Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1912) and Edith Cavell (1920), together with many memorial busts.
In 1895, an interviewer remarked that ‘his quiet power and restrained force impress you with the fact that here is a born leader – one who by tact and absence of fads will do much to make the decorative renascence of England a memorable period of her art’.[1]
Dr Jan Marsh
From the 1890s Frampton was influenced both by Arts and Crafts principles and by European Symbolists, with whom he exhibited in Venice, Brussels and Vienna. His work is notable for polychromy and mixed materials, though he also executed traditional sculptures in bronze and stone, including Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1912) and Edith Cavell (1920), together with many memorial busts.
In 1895, an interviewer remarked that ‘his quiet power and restrained force impress you with the fact that here is a born leader – one who by tact and absence of fads will do much to make the decorative renascence of England a memorable period of her art’.[1]
Dr Jan Marsh
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E.B.S. 1896
E.B.S., ‘Afternoons in Studios: A Chat with Mr George Frampton A.R.A’, The Studio, vol.6, January 1896, pp.204–12.
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Furniss, H., Garrick Gallery Caricatures, privately printed, London, n.d. [c.1913–16].
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Hart-Davis, R., A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, London, 1972.
Knox 1959
Knox, E.V., ‘Frampton, Sir George (1860–1928)’, DNB, Oxford, 1959.
London 1907–9
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Massé 1935
Massé, H.J.L.J., The Art-Workers’ Guild 1884–1934, Oxford, 1935.
Miller 1897
Miller, F., ‘George Frampton, A.R.A, Art Worker’, Art Journal, 1897, pp.321–4.
Morphet 1982
Morphet, R., Meredith Frampton, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London, 1982.
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Rosenblum, R., M. Stevens and A. Dumas, 1900: Art at the Crossroads, exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum, New York and Royal Academy, London, 2000.
Strang 1912
William Strang: Catalogue of His Etched Works 1882–1912, 2 vols, Glasgow, 1912.
Strang 1962
Strang, D., William Strang RA LlD: Catalogue of his Etchings and Engravings, Glasgow, 1962 [incorporating all previous catalogues].
Swanson 1990
Swanson, V.G., The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, London, 1990.