Henry Alfred Pegram RA
Born 27 July 1862
Died 26 March 1937
Active: 1884 - 1936
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, medallist
Born in London. He was the son of Henry Pegram, a china shopman (and later a manufacturer of perambulators and rocking horses) and grandson of Thomas W. Pegram. Studied at West London School of Art and from 1881-87 at the Royal Academy Schools. Died at his home, 72 Belsize Park Gardens, Belsize Park.
He primarily created busts and reliefs, but there were also many groups, models, statuettes, and medallions on religious or classical themes. His preferred media was bronze but he also worked in marble. (Relationship to Alfred Bertram Pegram not yet established).
Wealth at death: £2,385 16s. 2d.
Probate date: 21 April 1937
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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A Medallion
p.34 (12)
Mrs Pegram
1896 (Presumed)
A Boy's Head
1896 (Presumed)
The Last Song
1896 (Presumed)
Fortune
1901
The Bather
1901
Bather and Mermaid
1906 (Circa)
Locations
Address 36 Marlborough Hill St John's Wood London NW England | View on map
1897 (Circa) - 1907 (Circa)
Address 72 Belsize Park Gardens London NW England | View on map
1936 - 1937
Studio located at 1 Stanhope Yard Studios Delancy Street London England | View on map
1888 - 1904
Studio located at St. Johns Lodge Harley Road London England | View on map
1908 (Circa) - 1937 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Competed at Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1909
1 November 1909 (Circa)
Pegram's works were rejected as they were submitted after the date fixed for sending sculpture to the Royal Institute. He complained to the Royal Society of British Sculptors, who, in view of his recent resignation from that society, offered no assistance (1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no. 1).
Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1910
'Nymph and Merman'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1906
'Bather and Mermaid'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1884 - 1936
Exhibited 52 times, an average of three (to four) works per year.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the eighteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1888
1888
Charity (cat. no. 1408, bronze panel, £25).
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1894 - 1910
Exhibited 4 times (an average of one work per show)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fourth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1894
1894
The Last Song (cat. no. 1310, bronze over door, £315).
Exhibited at Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition, 1896
2 May 1896 - 30 September 1896
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
My Father (cat. no. 1410, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1903
1903
Pensée (cat. no. 1405, bronze bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
1907
British Sculpture, Gallery II:
'The Last Song' (bronzed low-relief in plaster), p. 26 (199), lent by the sculptor; 'Ignus Fatuus' (bronze plaque), p. 27 (204), lent by G. J. Frampton, Esq., RA; 'Bather and Mermaid' (bronze group), p. 28 (226), lent by the sculptor.
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1910
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 1 time: 1910 (2 works).
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth (Summer Exhibition), 1923
10 April 1923 - 21 April 1923
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1923' (1924), p. 27.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-First (Summer Exhibition), 1929
9 April 1929 - 19 April 1929
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1929' (1930), p. 27.
Selection committee member of Chantrey Bequest (Chantrey Fund; Royal Academy of Arts), 1875-1948
1908 - 1930
Served on the selection committee for sculpture in 1908, 1916, 1924, and 1926 (Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1908', 1909, p. 22). In 1927, Pegram is listed as a member of the 'Recommending Committee for Sculpture' ('Annual Report, 1927', 1928, p. 77). He served on the 'Recommending Committee' again in 1929 and 1930.
Selection committee member of The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Seventh (Summer Exhibition), 1935
8 April 1935 - 18 April 1935
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1935' (1936), p. 43.
Speaker at English Mural Monuments (Art Workers Guild), 1900
Speaker at Scale of Monuments (Art Workers Guild), 1901
Institutional and Business Connections
Chairwoman/chairman of Chelsea Arts Club
1904 - 1906
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1923
Served on the Selection Committee (junior half of the Council). See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1922', (1923), p. 34.
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
27 January 1904 - 9 February 1922
Elected RA in 1922.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
9 February 1922 - 6 March 1937
Died in 1937. Pegram's Diploma Work is was entitled 'The Sculptor's Daughter, Olive'. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1922', (1923), p. 70.
Member of Art Workers Guild
1890 - 1904
Committee member 1894-1896. Resigned 1904.
Member of Chelsea Arts Club
1891
Founder member of the Chelsea Arts Club
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1905 - 1909
Amongst those 'Invited to join without the formality of proposal and seconding' [January 10 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]. Resigned in 1909 [see separate entry].
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1923 - 1935
Served as a Member of the Council from 1923 to 1924, 1929 to 1930, and from 1935. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1922', (1923), p. 32.
Resigned from Royal Society of British Sculptors
4 August 1909
'Resigned his membership of the society in order that he might be free to contribute to the Liverpool exhibition [4 August 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
6 December 1881 - 1884 (Presumed)
Popp and Valentine give 1881 as the start date in \'Royal Academy of Arts Directory of Membership\', (1996), p. 93. Pegram was awarded a first prize of £30 for a model of a design, and a prize of £10 for a model of a statue or group in 1882. See Royal Academy, \'Annual Report, 1882\', (1883), pp. 32-33. In 1884 he won a second prize of £20 for a set of three models of a figure from the life. See \'Annual Report, 1884\', (1885), p. 43.
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1904 - 1920
Listed as visitor to the School of Sculpture from 1904 to 1916, and from 1920. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1904', (1905), p. 27.
Personal and Professional Connections
Collaborated with Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
Cousin of Alfred Bertram Pegram
Based on Census Returns of 1861
Nominated by Lawrence Alma- Tadema
1 December 1890
For RA.
Nominator of Harold Parker
15 January 1906
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
1912
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Mortimer John Brown
1912
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Richard Louis Garbe
4 May 1912 - 27 April 1927
Two nominations for RA, in 1912 and 1927.
Nominator of Alexander James Leslie
1912 (Presumed)
For RA; nomination cancelled by Pegram at a later, unspecified date.
Nominator of Alfred Turner
22 April 1920
For RA.
Nominator of Edwin Whitney-Smith
22 April 1920
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of James Alexander Stevenson
14 July 1925
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Benjamin Clemens
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconded by Lawrence Alma- Tadema
1 December 1890
For RA.
Seconder of Cecil Hew Brown
4 May 1909
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [4 May 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist. Forrer notes that the artist first exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1884 and again in 1914 and 1918. Pegram exhibited at the New York International Medallic Exhibition in March 1910. See vol. 8, (1930), p. 118.
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twelfth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1906
September 1906
p. 50
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1922, 1923 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1923
pp. 32-34, 70
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1924, 1925 Royal Academy Annual Reports
20 February 1925
pp. 19, 29
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1895, p.23; 1900, p.6 and lists of members' addresses 1896-1900.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
All lists of members' addresses.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1901, p.7, p.24; 1903, p.27.
Artists and Bohemians: 100 Years with the Chelsea Arts Club
1992
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Sixth Exhibition.
1899
p.81.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fourth, 1894 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1894
pp. 49-52.
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth, 1899 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1899
pp. 48-52.
Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the eighteenth, 1888 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1888
pp. 54-56.
Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition
1896
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1909
1909
Cat. No. 498, pp. 43, 84
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1910
1910
Cat. No. 406, pp. 35, 80
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1861
2005
RG09 piece 109 folio 44 page 12
International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901,
Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section
1901
International Exhibition, Dublin 1907, Fine Art Catalogue
1907
British Sculpture, Gallery II:
p. 26, no. 199:'The Last Song'. Bronzed Bas-Relief in Plaster.
Lent by the Sculptor.
p. 27, no. 204:'Ignus Fatuus'. bronze Plaque.
Lent by G.J. Frampton, Esq., R.A.
p. 28, no. 226:'Bather and Mermaid'. Bronze Group.
Lent by the Sculptor'.
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Robert Sharp, ‘Pegram, Henry Alfred (1862–1937)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64506, accessed 11 Dec 2009]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1890.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.43, pp.177-178, p.233.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.17, p.21, p.94, p.96.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
10 January 1905; 15 January 1906; 4 May 1909; 4 August 1909; 1 November 1909.
Citing this record
'Henry Alfred Pegram RA', 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=msib2_1203031770, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
