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F. W. Pomeroy

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British sculptor (1856–1924)

Frederick William Pomeroy
Pomeroy, 1908, byRobert Anning Bell
Born	9 October 1856 Lambeth, London, England
Died	26 May 1924(1924-05-26) (aged 67) Cliftonville, Kent, England
Resting place	Boscombe, Hampshire, England
Alma mater	South London Technical School of Art Royal Academy Schools
Known for	Sculpture
Movement	New Sculpture

Frederick William PomeroyRA (9 October 1856 – 26 May 1924) was a prolific British sculptor of architectural and monumental works.^[1] He became a leading sculptor in theNew Sculpture movement, a group distinguished by a stylistic turn towardsnaturalism and for their works ofarchitectural sculpture. Pomeroy had several significant public works in London and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, notably in Belfast. His work in London includes the figure ofLady Justice (1905–1906) on the dome of theOld Bailey.

Biography

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Pomeroy was born inLambeth, London, the son of a stone-carver.^[2]^[3] After his father died in 1869 Pomeroy, aged 14, was left as the main wage-earner for the family and was apprenticed to a firm of architectural stone carvers.^[1]^[4] Later he trained, for four years, withWilliam Silver Frith at theSouth London Technical School of Art where he was also taught byJules Dalou.^[4] The naturalistic style of Dalou's sculptures were a great influence on Pomeroy's subsequent works.^[4] In 1880, Pomeroy was able to enrol in theRoyal Academy Schools, where he won a number of prizes, including silver medals in both 1882 and 1883.^[5] In 1885 he won a gold medal and travelling scholarship which allowed him to study in Paris underAntonin Mercié and also in Italy.^[4]^[5]

On returning to London, Pomeroy joined theArt Workers Guild in 1887,^[6] and in 1888 began exhibiting with theArts and Crafts Exhibition Society.^[7] In 1887 he was part of a group of artists, supported by theRoyal Doulton Company, who created sculptures fora fountain in honour [de] ofQueen Victoria in Glasgow.^[7] For the fountain, now situated onGlasgow Green, Pomeroy carved the group representingAustralia.^[7] Also in 1887 he met the architectJ. D. Sedding who subsequently commissioned a large number of decorative architectural works from Pomeroy.^[7] These included carvings for the Church ofOur Most Holy Redeemer in London, an exterior sculpture for the tower of St Clement's Church in Bournemouth plus a screen and choir stalls in bronze forHoly Trinity, Sloane Street.^[7]^[8] Pomeroy also created a bronze angel, now lost, forSt Peter's Church, Ealing to accompany decorative work byHenry Wilson.^[9]

Alongside his architectural work, Pomeroy continued to create smaller exhibition pieces. He carved a marble replica ofFrederic Leighton's 1877 bronze sculptureAthlete wrestling with a python which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1891 before being transported to Denmark and, eventually, to Australia.^[10] The piece was poorly received at the Academy in comparison to the bronze original but a number of other works in theNew Sculpture style by Pomeroy helped build his artistic reputation.^[10] These included his 1890 statuette ofDionysus, now in theTate,So on a Delphic Reed from 1888 andLove the Conqueror shown at both the Royal Academy and theWalker Art Gallery in Liverpool during 1893.^[11]^[7] During the 1890s, Pomeroy showed eleven works at the Royal Academy, eight of which were small statuettes.^[7] Some of these, includingPerseus andLove the Conqueror were reproduced in sizes suitable for the domestic market, although some much larger versions ofPerseus were also cast, including a life-size bronze now in theNational Museum Cardiff.^[7]^[12]^[13]

After Sedding died in 1891, his pupilHenry Wilson took over his architectural practice and continued to commission designs from Pomeroy.^[7] These included a chimney piece, now destroyed, for a library atLadbroke Grove in London, decorative items for the library and chapel atWelbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire and a frieze for the chapel atDouglas Castle in South Lanarkshire.^[7] The architectEdward William Mountford commissioned architectural sculptures and decorations from Pomeroy forPaisley Town Hall in 1890 and, more extensively, forSheffield Town Hall in 1895.^[7] For the latter Pomeroy created a number of works, including a frieze of industrial workers, low-reliefs of figures representingSteam andElectricity, figures ofThor andVulcan supporting the city crest plus a series of sixlunettes andspandrels representing aspects of civic virtue.^[7]^[14]^[15]

*Fortitude, Truth and the Recording Angel*, The Old Bailey, London

In the first decade of the 20th century, Pomeroy received several further commissions for architectural sculptures on buildings designed by Mountford. These included the figure ofLady Justice on the dome of theOld Bailey plus figures for the entrance to the court, statuettes, lamp standards and other decorations for the Liverpool Museum and Technical College, work forLancaster Town Hall and a series of low-relief panels on gin-making for the exterior of Booth's Distillery in central London.^[7]^[16] Starting in 1905 Pomeroy created four colossal bronze figures for the upstream side ofVauxhall Bridge in London.^[7]^[17]

In 1907 Pomeroy became Master of the Art Workers Guild.^[6] He was elected an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1906, and a full member in 1917.^[5] From 1898 to 1908 he was a regular exhibitor with theInternational Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, atLeeds City Art Gallery from 1897 to 1909, with theAberdeen Artists Society from 1893 to 1923 and with theRoyal Scottish Academy he showed seven works between 1903 and 1924.^[1] Pomeroy displayed works at theRoyal Academy Summer Exhibition each year from 1885 to 1924 and, in the same period, showed 17 works at theRoyal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and, late in his life, became a regular exhibitor with theRoyal West of England Academy.^[1] Several museums hold examples of Pomeroy's work including theTate, theVictoria and Albert Museum, theAshmolean Museum in Oxford, theLaing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne andPollok House in Glasgow.^[7]

In 1913 Pomeroy married Patricia Morrison Coughlan, ofDouglas, Cork, with who he had two sons.^[18] Pomeroy died on 26 May 1924,^[5] aged 65, and was buried atBoscombe in Hampshire. A memorial to him is inSt James's Church, Piccadilly.

Public works

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1887–1905

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Wikidata	Notes
More images	Australia	The Doulton Fountain [de],Glasgow Green	1887	Sculpture group	Terracotta		Category A	Q17568982	^[7]^[19]
More images	Robert Burns	Fountain Gardens, Paisley	1895	Statue on pedestal with plaques	Bronze and granite		Category B	Q17843407	^[20]^[21]
More images	The Nymph of Loch Awe	Tate Britain	1897	Sculpture	Marble	26.7 x 64.1 x 22.9cm		Q19357579	^[22]
More images	Gordon Highlanders memorial obelisk	Duthie Park, Aberdeen	1898	Obelisk	Granite	4.5m high	Category C	Q77776613	Douglas Strachan (designer), Henderson & Webster (masons), originally topped with a bronze sculpture which is now missing^[23]^[24]
More images	Statue of AdmiralRobert Blake	Cornhill,Bridgwater, Somerset	1900	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and granite		Grade II*	Q30625603	^[25]^[26]
	William Ewart Gladstone	Central Lobby,Houses of Parliament, London	1900	Statue on pedestal	Marble	2.4m tall			^[7]^[27]
More images	Statue ofOliver Cromwell	Market Hill,St Ives, Cambridgeshire	1901	Statue on pedestal and steps	Bronze and Portland stone		Grade II	Q22917664	^[25]^[28]^[29]
	Frederick John Horniman	Exterior of theHorniman Museum, London	1901	Plaque	Bronze				^[30]
More images	Dr.Walter Hook	City Square, Leeds	1903	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and granite		Grade II	Q26655854	^[25]^[31]
More images	Statue ofQueen Victoria	Forecourt ofChester Castle, Cheshire	1903	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone		Grade II	Q15615686	^[32]
More images	Robert Ascroft M.P.	Alexandra Park, Oldham,Greater Manchester	1903	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone		Grade II	Q26497406	^[25]^[33]
More images	Robert Burns	The Domain, Sydney, Australia	1905	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone			Q106458976	^[34]
More images	Queen Victoria	Interior ofWoolwich Town Hall, London	1905	Statue on pedestal	Marble			Q125678400	^[35]
	Samuel Hole	Rochester Cathedral, Kent	1905	Recumbent figure	Marble		Grade I		^[36]^[37]
More images	ArchbishopFrederick Temple	St Paul's Cathedral, London	1905	Curved relief plaque	Bronze				^[38]

1906–1909

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Type	Material	Designation	Wikidata	Notes
More images	Justice	The Old Bailey, London	1906	Statue	Gilded bronze	Grade II*	Q55247277	^[16]^[39]
More images	Hibernia andMinerva withIndustry, Labour & Liberty	Pediment,Belfast City Hall	1906	Deep relief architectural sculpture	Stone	Grade A		^[40]^[41]
More images	James Nugent	St John's Gardens, Liverpool	1906	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone	Grade II	Q26504982	^[25]^[42]
More images	Marquess of Dufferin	Belfast City Hall	1906	3 piece sculpture group on pedestal with canopy	Bronze and stone	Grade A	Q17778397	^[43]^[44]^[40]^[45]^[46]
	Boer War memorial	The Great Hall,Guildhall, London	1907	3 Relief panels	Bronze			^[47]^[48]
More images	Agriculture,Architecture,Pottery andEngineering	West side ofVauxhall Bridge, London	1907	Four statues	Bronze	Grade II*	Q1142134	^[7]^[17]
	George Ridding	Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire	1907	Statue on platform	Bronze and marble	Grade I		Memorial designed byW D Caroe^[49]^[50]
More images	William Henry Perkin	Royal Society of Chemistry,Burlington House, London	1907	Bust on pedestal	Marble			^[51]
More images	Francis Bacon	South Square,Gray's Inn, London	1908	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and Portland stone	Grade II	Q27084378	^[52]^[53]
More images	BishopArthur Lloyd	Newcastle Cathedral	1908	Effigy	Alabaster			^[54]
More images	SirJames Horner Haslett	Belfast City Hall	1909	Statue on pedestal	Marble and granite	Grade B1	Q17778550	^[45]^[55]
More images	Learning	World Museum, Byrom Street, Liverpool	1909	Statue on column	Bronze	Grade II*	Q5146857	Former College of Technology and Museum extension, with other decoration by Pomeroy, architect E.W. Mountford.^[56]
More images	Navigation	World Museum Liverpool	1909	Statue on column	Bronze	Grade II*	Q5146857	^[56]

1910–1919

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Type	Material	Designation	Wikidata	Notes
More images	Thomas Guthrie	WestPrinces Street Gardens, Edinburgh	1910	Statue on pedestal	Portland stone	Category B	Q17813224	^[57]
More images	Statue ofMichael Bass, 1st Baron Burton	In front ofBurton upon Trent Town Hall	1911	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone	Grade II	Q26290476	^[58]^[59]
More images	Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby	Interior ofSt George's Hall, Liverpool	1911	Statue	Marble		Q114932527	^[60]^[61]
	George Livesey	Grounds of formerLivesey Museum for Children, London	Unveiled 1911	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone	Grade II	Q26665510	^[62]^[63]^[64]
	Hywel Dda	The Marble Hall,Cardiff City Hall	1916	Statue group on pedestal	Marble			^[65]
More images	Birthplace ofThomas Gray	39Cornhill, London	1917-18	Plaque	Bronze	Grade II		^[66]
More images	Robert James McMordie	Belfast City Hall	1919	Statue on pedestal	Carrara marble and granite	Grade B1	Q17778465	^[45]^[67]

1920–1924

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Image	Title / subject	Location and coordinates	Date	Type	Material	Dimensions	Designation	Wikidata	Notes
More images	George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston	Victoria Memorial, Kolkata	1921	Statue on pedestal	Marble			Q126372276	^[68]
More images	War memorial	Ramsey, Cambridgeshire	1921	Statue on column	Bronze and stone		Grade II	Q26459919	^[69]^[70]
	SirClements Markham	Courtyard ofLowther Lodge, London	1921	Bust	Bronze		Grade II*		^[71]^[72]
More images	Robert Burns	Domain Drive,Auckland, New Zealand	1921	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and granite	2.745m	Historic Place Category 2	Q79303840	^[73]
More images	War memorial	Coleraine,County Londonderry	1922	Statue on obelisk with base figure	Bronze and Portland stone	5.4m high			^[74]
More images	War memorial	Kensington High Street, London	1922	Cross on column and pedestal	Portland stone	10.6m high	Grade II	Q26300012	Architect: Hubert Christian Corlette.^[75]^[76]
	War memorial	Inver Park,Larne,County Antrim	1922	Cenotaph with sculpture figures	Portland stone and bronze		Grade B1		^[77]
More images	Brigadier-GeneralJohn Nicholson	Market Square,Lisburn	1922	Statue on pedestal	Bronze and stone		Grade B		^[78]