1. Sir George James Frampton, was a British sculptor.
28 Facts About George Frampton
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George Frampton was a leading member of the New Sculpture movement in his early career when he created sculptures with elements of Art Nouveau and Symbolism, often combining various materials such as marble and bronze in a single piece.
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George Frampton was born on 18 June 1860 in London, where his father was a woodcarver and stonemason.
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George Frampton began his own working life as a stone carver in 1878, working on the Hotel de Ville in Paris.
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George Frampton returned to London to study under William Silver Frith at the South London Technical School of Art during 1880 and 1881.
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George Frampton went on to the Royal Academy Schools where, between 1881 and 1887, he won a gold medal and travelling scholarship.
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George Frampton created an altarpiece for Manchester Cathedral, some decorative pieces for the Henry Fawcett Memorial in London and a pair of terracotta figures representing Concord and Industry which were exhibited in Paris and purchased for the Municipal Building in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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George Frampton returned to England and, briefly, worked in the studio of Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm.
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George Frampton then took up a teaching post at the Slade School of Art in 1893 and was, for a year, the joint head of the Central School of Arts and Crafts.
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In 1893, George Frampton married the artist Christabel Cockerell and the couple set up home together at St John's Wood in London.
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Together they designed a decorative frieze for the interior of the house and George Frampton began to design household fittings, jewellery in enamel and precious metals and medals, most notably for Glasgow University and Winchester College.
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The statue of Dame Alice Owen was originally shown at the Royal Academy as a free-standing statue but when it was installed in the entry hall of Owen's School George Frampton made it the centre of a larger installation that he designed.
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In panels and niches around the statue, which he placed on a pink marble pedestal, George Frampton included 16th-century carvings of Owen's ancestors and fragments of her 17th-century tomb.
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In 1896, George Frampton exhibited, with the architect Charles Harrison Townsend, a large fireplace in American walnut at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.
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The fireplace was decorated with an innovative tree and foliage design by George Frampton that was much imitated by Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts designers and became known as the "George Frampton tree".
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In 1897, examples of George Frampton's work featured at the Venice Biennale and at the Vienna Secession the following year.
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George Frampton regularly exhibited at the La Libre Esthetique in Brussels, a city he considered an important market for his work.
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The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 led to George Frampton receiving several commissions for memorials to the Queen.
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George Frampton based several of these on his design of a seated figure he used for the Kolkata statue but with some variations.
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George Frampton used the same cast for the statues in Leeds and St Helens but changed the style of the decorative details and pedestals between them.
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The area over the main entrance arch was allocated to George Frampton who created spandrel figures of Truth and Beauty for the space while the remainder of the main entrance was assigned to Drury.
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George Frampton created Dr Barnardo's Memorial, in Barkingside, London, in 1908, a work he undertook without claiming a fee.
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In 1915, George Frampton was commissioned to create a public memorial to Edith Cavell.
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George Frampton subsequently worked with Sir Edwin Lutyens on two of the architect's war memorials in the aftermath of the First World War, the Hove War Memorial in East Sussex and the Fordham War Memorial in Cambridgeshire, unveiled in February and August 1921 respectively.
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George Frampton was married to the artist Christabel Cockerell and had one son, the painter and etcher Meredith Frampton.
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George Frampton was an active member of The Art Workers' Guild and became Master in 1902.
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George Frampton sculpted the Art Workers' Guild's Master's Jewel in silver representing 'Art is Unity'.
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George Frampton became a royal academician in 1902 and was knighted in 1908.