Herbert Hampton
Born 1862
Died 11 February 1929
Active: 1888 - 1927
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, stone carver
Born in Haddesdon, Herts. He studied at Cardiff School of Art, Lambeth School of Art, Westminster School of Art, the Slade and then the Académies Julien and Colarossi, Paris. Died at Great Bardfield, Essex.
His obituary in 'The Times' presented a lukewarm assessment of his practice but acknowledged his success as the creator of public memorials. The author singles out for mention his six statues of Queen Victoria, one of King Edward VII in Euston Road and another of King George for India.
Hampton is also said to have had strong views on how competitions for public memorials were arranged. The obituary suggests he was a regular correspondent to the editor of 'The Times', noting he had had a letter on this topic published shortly before his death (5 February 1929).
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Sir Henry Howorth, KCSI, DCL, FRS
Mr Benjamin Matthews, of Ely
1888 (Presumed)
The Ven. Archdeacon Griffith
1888 (Presumed)
The Rev. R. Alliott, MA
1888 (Presumed)
Hon. H. C. Bruce
1889 (Presumed)
Geo. Lawrence, Esq., of Cheltenham
1889 (Presumed)
Hon. Wm Bruce
1889 (Presumed)
The late Right Hon. Lord Aberdare
1896 (Presumed)
Narcissus
1896 (Presumed)
A French Girl
1896 (Presumed)
£25
A Portrait
1896 (Presumed)
£60
The Late Rt Hon. Lord Aberdare
1897 (Presumed)
The Late J. G. Matthews, Esq.
1897 (Presumed)
Mother and Child
1897 (Presumed)
David
1897 (Presumed)
The late Dean Vaughan
1898 (Presumed)
£3 3s.
The late Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone
1898 (Presumed)
£8 8s.
The late Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone
1898 (Presumed)
R. L. Tweedale
1898 (Presumed)
Robert Burns
1900
Apollo
1901
The Kitten
1901
The Broken Bow
1901
Robert Burns
1901
Narcissus
1901
Sir William Turner, Principle of Edinburgh University
1904
Sketch Model for a statue of the late Charles Kingsley
1905
The kitten
1913
Locations
Address 36 Osnaburgh Street Regent's Park London | View on map
1889 (Circa) - 1890 (Circa)
Address Hoddesdon | View on map
1891 (Circa) - 1896 (Circa)
Address 3 Cheniston Gardens London | View on map
1896 - 1898
Address 2 Victoria Road Kensington Garden London W | View on map
1896 (Circa) - 1900 (Circa)
Address 18 St. Ann's Villas Royal Crescent London W | View on map
1899 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Address Queenbury Reed near Royston | View on map
1901 (Circa)
Address The Place Great Bardfield Braintree | View on map
1927 (Circa) - 1929
Studio located at 16 Maida Vale London W | View on map
1903 (Circa) - 1915 (Circa)
Studio located at Old Church Studio Carlton Hill London | View on map
1923 (Circa) - 1927 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Second Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1899
Multiple works
Exhibited at Exhibition of International Art (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1898
'Signor Randegger'
Exhibited at Fifth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1905
'Sir Henry Irving'
Exhibited at Exhibition of Fair Women (International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London), 1908
Multiple works
Exhibited at Eighth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1908
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1905
'Sketch Model for a statue of the late Charles Kingsley'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1897
'David'
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirtieth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1900
'The Broken Bow'
Exhibited at The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers Exhibition (Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery), 1905
'Sir Henry Irving'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Nineteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1901
'Sir Henry Howorth, KCSI, DCL, FRS'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Eighth, 1904
'Sir William Turner, Principle of Edinburgh University'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Seventh, 1913
'The kitten'
Exhibited at Thirty-Ninth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1900
'Robert Burns'
Exhibited at South Wales Art Society and Sketching Club 1st Annual Exhibition, 1888
1888
Exhibited at South Wales Art Society and Sketching Club 2nd Annual Exhibition, 1889
1889
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1889 - 1927
Exhibited 27 times, usually two works per year.
Exhibited at Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition, 1896
2 May 1896 - 30 September 1896
Exhibited at South Wales Art Society 9th Annual Exhibition, 1896
1896
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1896
1896
Narcissus (cat. no. 1199, bronze statuette, £175); David (cat. no. 1203, statue, bronze, £750).
Exhibited at South Wales Art Society 10th Annual Exhibition of Pictures, 1897
1897
Exhibited at South Wales Art Society 11th Annual Exhibition, 1898
3 October 1898 - 26 November 1898
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1898
1898
R. L. Tweedale, Esq. (cat. no. 1421, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
The Kitten (cat. no. 1419, plaster group, not for sale).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
1907
British Sculpture, Gallery II:' The Kitten' (group in plaster), p. 24 (174).
Lent by the sculptor.
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd.)
1910 - 1911 (Circa)
Modelled two portrait medallions for Wedgwood: see Reilly and Savage, 'The Dictionary of Wedgwood' (1980), 182.
See two photographs of these Jasper medallions of Edward VII and George V in the Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive, both of which are recorded as being originally designed by Hampton in 1910 [reference no.s MED134, 149].
Member of The South Wales Art Society
1888 - 1901
Not listed as a member in 1893.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1908 - 1916
Amongst the second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].
Student at South London Technical School of Art (also Lambeth School of Art and City and Guilds of London Art School)
Before 1891, exact dates unknown
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Charles Bennet Lawes-Wittewronge
6 July 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [6 July 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Seconded by Francis Derwent Wood
6 July 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [6 July 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Descriptions of Practice
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' employer
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' employer working at home
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirtieth, 1900 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1900
Cat. Nos. 1440, 1450, pp. 39, 40
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-eighth, 1898 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1898
pp. 45-48.
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 modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth, 1896 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1896
pp. 45-48.
Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition
1896
Catalogue of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers' Exhibition, Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, 1905
1905
Cat. No. 324, pp. 46, 56
Catalogue of the Nineteenth Autumn Exhibition, 1901
1901
Cat. No. 281, pp. 49, 55
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1897
1897
Cat. No. 643, pp. 59, 98
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Ref: Class: RG13; Piece: 24; Folio: 50; Page: 44
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN587 RG78PN21 RD7 SD4 ED10
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Herbert Hampton
Birth Date: abt 1863
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1929
Age at Death: 66
Registration district: Dunmow
Inferred County: Essex
Volume: 4a
Page: 1490
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. 24, no. 174:' The Kitten'. Group in Plaster.
Lent by the Sculptor.
List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008
Report of the South London Technical School of Art (City and Guilds of London Institute), 1891
July 1891
p. 10
Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1905 RHA Annual Exhibition Catalogues
1905
p. 32 (436, 437)
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 1, 1905-1913
19 May 1913
2 March 1905; 13 January 1908; 6 July 1908.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 2, 1913-1922
1922 (Presumed)
p. 2.
South Wales Art Society 10th Annual Exhibition Catalogue.
1897
South Wales Art Society 11th Annual Exhibition of pictures.
1898
South Wales Art Society 13th Annual Exhibition Catalogue
1900
South Wales Art Society 14th Annual Exhibition Catalogue
1901
South Wales Art Society 3rd Annual Exhibition Catalogue.
1890
South Wales Art Society and Sketching Club 1st Annual Exhibition Catalogue.
1888
South Wales Art Society and Sketching Club 2nd Annual Exhibition Catalogue.
1889
South Wales Art Society catalogue for 9th Annual Exhibition of pictures.
1896
The Dictionary of Wedgwood
1980
p. 182.
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Wednesday, Feb 13, 1929; pg. 9; Issue 45126; col C
Mr. Herbert Hampton.
Category: Obituaries
The Wedgwood Museum Digital Archive
See two photographs of portrait medallions of Edward VII and George V, both of which were originally designed by Hampton in 1910 [reference no.s MED134, 149].
Who was Who
December 2007
'HAMPTON, Herbert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U210717, accessed 13 Jan 2009]
Citing this record
'Herbert Hampton', 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_1203104115, accessed 16 Oct 2021]
