Henry Alfred Pegram

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

Henry Alfred Pegram (27 July 1862 25 March 1937[1]) was a British sculptor, an exponent of the New Sculpture movement.

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]

His daughter, Doris Joan Pegram, married the artist and illustrator H. M. Brock.

Henry Alfred Pegram died in 1937 in his home in Hampstead, London.[1]

Prizes

Works (incomplete list)

Edith Cavell monument at Norwich Cathedral

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Chamot, M.; Farr, D.; Butlin, M.: The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Quinlan, M.: Henry Alfred Pegram. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Wengraf, P.: Henry Alfred Pegram. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Lawson, G.: Pegram, Henry Alfred, version of 2008-08-13. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
  5. Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group: St Paul's Girls' School. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
  6. Unveiling the Campbell Statue Hawera & Normanby Star, May 25, 1906. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
  7. Royal Institute of Architects: Item RIBA20226. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
  8. Cocke, R.; Cocke, S.: Public sculpture in central Norwich, The Norwich Society, 2007. URL last accessed 2008-08-22.
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