James Loft
Active: 1851 - 1860
Function: Sculptor, plaster cast figure maker
History or description: Loft's business as a plaster figure maker is known from the account he gave to the National Gallery parliamentary commission in 1853. Here Loft stated that he had taken over the business formerly run by Sarti and that he made moulds from statues in the British Museum. (See person record for James Loft and Roscoe, 2009, for further details).
Locations
Business located at 29 Clipstone Street Fitzroy Square London | View on map
1851 (Circa) - 1860 (Circa)
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed in Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1851
p.1365
Listed as 'Sculptor;' 'Plaster Cast Figure Maker'
Listed in Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p.1803
Listed as 'Sculptor'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 747-8
Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1851
p. 1319 and p. 1365
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p.1803
Citing this record
'James Loft', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib1_1227873416, accessed 26 Feb 2021]
