Gaffin and Co.
Active: 1890 - 1921
Function: Sculpture cleaner, sculptor, monumental sculptor
History or description: This firm continued the name of the business which had been established by Edward and Thomas Gaffin in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century. No members of the Gaffin family have so far been linked to the firm after Edward Gaffin junior's (c.1843-71) death. The exact date of the change from Thomas or Edward Gaffin to Gaffin and Co is uncertain but there are works attributed to the business continuously up to the early 1900s listed in Roscoe (2009).
The firm seems to have been involved in making war memorials in the early 1920s. For example there is a reference to Gaffin and Co, London, being paid £105. 1s. 0d. in connection with the Soldiers' Memorial in the parish of Addingham, Cumbria. A record in Swansea Archives indicates Gaffin and Co. were involved in creating the War Memorial at Briton Ferry, Neath in 1921.
This record includes information submitted by Lydia Gray from the Vestry Book,1921, PR29/76, Cumbria Archive Service, Carlisle and by D.A. Lewis at Swansea Archives.
Locations
Business located at 63 Regent Street London | View on map
1890 (Circa)
The Gaffin showroom was located at this address for several decades based on information from Roscoe (2009).
Located at 7A Bayham Street London | View on map
1890 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
Located at The Carrara Marble and Granite Works 63 Regent Street London | View on map
1900 (Circa)
Descriptions of Business or Institution
Listed in Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371
Listed as 'Sculpture Cleaner' and 'Sculptor'
Listed under sculptor Post Office London Directory, 1890 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1890
p.1997
Listed as 'Monumental Sculptor'
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 486-9
Post Office London Directory, 1890 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1890
p.1997
Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371
Citing this record
'Gaffin and Co.', 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_1271840803, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
