British picture framemakers, 1630-1950 - U
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Resources and bibliography
*E.J. Uppard, 15 Fitzroy St, London W 1906-1925. Carver and gilder.
Edwin John Uppard (1857-1934) was recorded in the 1881 census as a carpenter, age 23, living with his father, Oliver, at 20 Sussex Mews, London. He joined William Augustine Smith (qv), becoming a partner in the business of Smith & Uppard at 77 Mortimer St from 1889 until 1898, when the business was acquired by James Bourlet & Sons (qv). By 1906, he was trading under his own name. In the 1911 census he was recorded in Hornsey as a carver and gilder and employer, with his wife, four daughters and a son, Edwin Oliver, age 21, a gilder. G.F. Watts's Three Heads (Fitzwilliam Museum) bears Uppard's label, with the date 1906 (Simon 1996 p.173, no.80, n.2), as does Dante Gabriel Rossetti's La Pia de' Tolomei, 1868-80, presumably a repair or reframing (Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; see Ira Horowitz, 'The Picture Frame, 1848-1892: The Pre-Raphaelites, Whistler, Paris', unpublished thesis, Queen's College (CUNY), 1974, p.82).
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