Robert Jefferson
Born 1827 (Circa)
Died 1870 (Probable)
Active: 1853 - 1860
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, marble worker, designer
Born in St. Saviour's, Surrey.
Locations
Address 73 Hercules Buildings Lambeth London | View on map
1853 (Circa) - 1860 (Circa)
Possibly his workshop or studio, in 1861 an ironmonger was listed at this address in the Census Returns
Address 69 Hercules Buildings Lambeth London | View on map
1860 (Circa)
Address 70 Hercules Buildings Lambeth London | View on map
1861 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1853 - 1860
Exhibited 3 times, one work each time (a model in wax of Wellington's entry into Madrid shown in 1853 (cat. no. 1462) is noted as having been purchased by the Art Union of London).
Institutional and Business Connections
Commissioned by William Potts
1853 (Circa)
'Filial Gratitude' exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1854 (cat. no. 1854) 'executed for William Potts, Bronze Monumental Works, Birmingham and mentioned as one of the 'Patented Sepulchral Monuments' exhibited in Dublin in 1853
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
p. 1803
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
'Sculptor Marble Designer'
Occupation given in Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
'Modeller'
Sources
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2004
Class: RG9; Piece: 351; Folio: 24; Page: 7; GSU roll: 542620
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Robert Jefferson
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1828
Registration Year: 1870
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: 42
Registration district: St Saviour Southwark
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1d
Page: 59
Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1851
Class: HO107; Piece: 1480; Folio: 30; Page: 11; GSU roll: 87804-87805
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p. 1803
Citing this record
'Robert Jefferson', 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/person.php?id=ann_1278162590, accessed 26 Sep 2021]
