Into the Silent Land by Henry Pegram, Golders Green CrematoriumPegram's Nymph and Merman
Henry Alfred PegramRA (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 1886 – 1 November 1979),[3][4] married one of the brothers, the artist and illustrator
H. M. BrockRI (11 July 1875 – 21 July 1960)[5][6] on 7 September 1912.[7] The illustrator
Fred PegramRI (19 December 1870 – 23 August 1937),[8] and his brother, the sculptor and medallist Alfred Bertram Pegram[9] (17 January 1873 – 14 January 1941)[10][11] were first cousins to both Henry Alfred and the Brocks.
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]
^London Metropopolitan Archives (7 September 1912). "Marriage Solemnized at St. Paul's Church in the parish of Hampstead in the county of Middlesex: No. 128: Henry Matthew Brock and Doris Joan Pegram". London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932. London: London Metropolitan Archives. p. 64.
^"Alfred Bertram Pegram". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Retrieved 13 July 2020 – via University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII.
^National Archives (29 September 1939). 1939 Register: Reference: RG 101/238A E.D. AKBI. Kew: National Archives.
Into the Silent Land by Henry Pegram, Golders Green CrematoriumPegram's Nymph and Merman
Henry Alfred PegramRA (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 1886 – 1 November 1979),[3][4] married one of the brothers, the artist and illustrator
H. M. BrockRI (11 July 1875 – 21 July 1960)[5][6] on 7 September 1912.[7] The illustrator
Fred PegramRI (19 December 1870 – 23 August 1937),[8] and his brother, the sculptor and medallist Alfred Bertram Pegram[9] (17 January 1873 – 14 January 1941)[10][11] were first cousins to both Henry Alfred and the Brocks.
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]
^London Metropopolitan Archives (7 September 1912). "Marriage Solemnized at St. Paul's Church in the parish of Hampstead in the county of Middlesex: No. 128: Henry Matthew Brock and Doris Joan Pegram". London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932. London: London Metropolitan Archives. p. 64.
^"Alfred Bertram Pegram". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Retrieved 13 July 2020 – via University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII.
^National Archives (29 September 1939). 1939 Register: Reference: RG 101/238A E.D. AKBI. Kew: National Archives.