Henry Alfred Pegram

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Into the Silent Land by Henry Pegram, Golders Green Crematorium
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Pegram's Nymph and Merman

Henry Alfred Pegram Template:Post-nominals (27 July 1862 – 26 March 1937) was a British sculptor and exponent of the New Sculpture movement.[1]

Life

Pegram was born in London and received his first artistic education at the West London School of Art. Already in 1881 and in 1883 he won prizes at the National Art Competitions. In 1881, he entered the Royal Academy schools, where he again won prizes in 1882, 1884, and 1886. In 1887 he left the school and worked until 1891 as assistant to Hamo Thornycroft. He became a member of the Art Workers' Guild in 1890, an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1904 and finally a Royal Academician in 1922. From 1890, Pegram was commissioned for numerous building decorations and statues. In 1913, he was one of the ten sculptors selected to work on the city hall of Cardiff, for which he sculpted the figure of Llewelyn the Last.[2]

Pegram was a cousin to the Brocks of Cambridge, a family with four brothers who worked as painters and illustrators in a large studio at their family home in Cambridge. His eldest daughter, Doris Joan Pegram (12 June 1886Template:Snd1 November 1979),[3][4] married one of the brothers, the artist and illustrator H. M. Brock Template:Post-nominals (11 July 1875Template:Snd21 July 1960)[5][6] on 7 September 1912.[7] The illustrator Fred Pegram Template:Post-nominals (19 December 1870Template:Snd23 August 1937),[8] and his brother, the sculptor and medallist Alfred Bertram Pegram[9] (17 January 1873Template:Snd14 January 1941)[10][11] were first cousins to both Henry Alfred and the Brocks.

Henry Alfred Pegram died of a cerebral haemorrhage,[12] on 26 March 1937 in his home, 72 Belsize Park Gardens, Belsize Park, Hampstead, London.[13]

Prizes

  • Bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1889 (for Death Liberating a Prisoner)[14]
  • Gold medal at Dresden, 1897 (for The Last Song)[2]
  • Silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900 (for a life-size plaster cast of Sibylla Fatidica, a marble version was presented in 1904 to the Tate.)[14]

Selected works

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Edith Cavell monument at Norwich Cathedral

References

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  1. a b c d e Chamot, M.; Farr, D.; Butlin, M.: The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964.
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k Quinlan, M.: Henry Alfred Pegram Template:Webarchive. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
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  14. a b c d Wengraf, P.: Henry Alfred Pegram. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
  15. a b c d Lawson, G.: Pegram, Henry Alfred, version of 2008-08-13. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
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  17. Unveiling the Campbell Statue Hawera & Normanby Star, May 25, 1906. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
  18. Royal Institute of Architects: Item RIBA20226. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
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  20. Cocke, R.; Cocke, S.: Public sculpture in central Norwich Template:Webarchive, The Norwich Society, 2007. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.

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