Sir George James Frampton RA, FSA, LLD
Born 18 June 1860
Died 21 May 1928
Active: 1887 - 1925
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, stone carver
Born in London. He was the second son of James Frampton (born c.1835 in London), wood and stone carver. In 1878 George worked as a stone carver on the Hotel de Ville in Paris. He then returned to London and studied first at the South London Technical School of Art (1880-1) and then at the Royal Academy Schools (1881-7). During this time he completed several commissions for decorative and ornamental sculpture. Frampton also created a number of architectural works, including decoration for the facades of the Chelsea Conservative Club (c.1885) and the Constitutional Club in Northumberland Avenue (1885–6), both destroyed.
After leaving the RA Schools, Frampton went to Paris and studied sculpture under Antonin Mercié (1845-1916) and painting with Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929) and Gustave Courtois (1853-1923). On his return to London he worked briefly as an assistant to Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm.
From the early 1890s Frampton's works increasingly fused sculpture and the decorative arts. Many of the pieces combined several different materials, such as bronze and marble in his statue of Dame Alice Owen (1897) for the School of this name in Islington, London (now in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire). Frampton also exhibited with the symbolists on a number of occasions, notably at the Venice Biennale of 1897, La Libre Esthétique in Brussels, and the first Vienna Secession in 1897.
His career was outstandingly successful and he received numerous honours for his achievements, including being made an honorary LLD at St Andrews University (1894) and a member of the Royal Fine Arts Commission from its foundation in 1924. In return, Frampton was generous to younger sculptors and gave his time freely to students as one of the directors of the Central School of Art (1890s) and as a Visitor to the Royal Academy Schools. He also sat on numerous committees and supported a range of art societies.
George married the painter Christabel Cockerell (1863-1951) in April 1893. She had an active career both before and after her marriage, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1885-1910. They had one son, the painter Meredith Frampton (1894–1984).
Wealth at death: £70,316 4s. 2d.
Probate date: 30 June 1928
Works
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Model of Border to Chancel Ceiling Erected in the New Church of St Clement, Bradford
Rough Sketch Model for Chancel Ceiling Erected in the New Church of St Clement, Bradford
Part of a memorial executed in bronze and stone
The five figures in recesses above
Saint Christina
1891
St Christina
1896 (Presumed)
Seven Heroines from 'Morte d'Arthur'
1896 (Circa)
Copies of Medal for Glasgow University
1896 (Circa)
Olive, daughter of Cosmo Monkhouse, Esq.
1896
J. Passmore Edwards, Esq.
1899 (Presumed)
Part of a Monument
1900
Sketches for wall tablets
1900
W. Rathbone, Esq.
1901
The Statue of Her Majesty the Queen
1901
Martin Harvey, Actor
1901
Bust of Mrs. Frampton and Son
1901
Mother and Child
1902 (Presumed)
Bust
1902
Bust
1902
Lady of the Isle of Avelyan
1903
p. 80 (207)
Lyoners
1903
Case of medals
1903
p. 80 (216)
Sir Anthony MacDonnell, KSI, KCVO
1904
William Strang, Esq.
1904
William Strong
1905
Case of Medals, etc.
1905 (Presumed)
G. F. Watts, RA
1906
Part of a memorial - 'so he brought them unto their desired haven'
1906
The Late G. F. Watts, RA
1906 (Circa)
Bronze panel
1906 (Circa)
Alfred East, Esq., ARA, PRBA
1908 (Presumed)
Enid the Fair
1908 (Presumed)
William Strang, Esq., ARA
1908 (Presumed)
Enid the Fair
1908
Canon Major Lester
1910 (Presumed)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
1910 (Presumed)
Madonna of the Peach Tree
1910 (Presumed)
Madonna of the Peach Tree
1910
The Late G. F. Watts, RA
1912 (Presumed)
Nurse Cavell
1917
Peter Pan
1917
Locations
Address 10 Prospect Terrace Britannia Road London | View on map
1871 (Circa)
Address 98 Warner Road Camberwell Green London SE | View on map
1890 (Circa) - 1896 (Circa)
Address 32 Queen's Road St John's Wood London | View on map
1894 (Circa) - 1911
Address 90 Carlton Hill, St Johns Wood London NW | View on map
1909 - 1928
Shared house with his son, the painter Meredith Frampton, who continued to live there after his death.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Adjudicated Royal National Eisteddfod Arts, Crafts, Science and Loan Exhibition, 1912
20 August 1912 - 7 September 1912
Adjudicated all 5 competitions within the Sculpture and Modelling category and Co-adjudicated all 5 competitions within the Woodwork and Carving category.
Arranged Art Workers Guild, First Exhibition, 1895
Part of sub-committee for exhibition.
Exhibited at Fifth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1905
'William Strang, Esq.'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Sixth Exhibition, 1899
'Part of a memorial executed in bronze and stone'
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
'The five figures in recesses above'
Exhibited at Franco-British Exhibition of Science, Art and Industries (London), 1908
'Lamia'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1904
'Sir Anthony MacDonnell, KSI, KCVO'
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1905
'William Strong'
Exhibited at The Thirty-Seventh Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1902
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Seventy-Ninth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1905
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Forty-Third Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1908
'Enid the Fair '
Exhibited at The Eighty-Second Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1908-1909
'William Strang, Esq., ARA'
Exhibited at The Forty-Fifth Spring Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1910
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Eighty-Forth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1910-1911
'Madonna of the Peach Tree'
Exhibited at The Eighty-Sixth Autumn Exhibition (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1912-1913
'The Late G. F. Watts, RA'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'
Exhibited at Manchester Art Gallery, Second Exhibition of Arts and Crafts, 1895
Multiple works
Exhibited at The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers Exhibition (Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery), 1905
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Sixth, 1922
'La belle dame sans merci'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Sixty-Fifth, 1891
'Saint Christina'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Sixth, 1902
'Bust'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Seventh, 1903
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Seventy-Eighth, 1904
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eightieth, 1906
'Part of a memorial - 'so he brought them unto their desired haven''
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-First, 1907
'Sir James Marwick, LLD'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Second, 1908
'Enid the Fair'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Third, 1909
'La belle dame sans merci'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Eighty-Fourth, 1910
'Madonna of the Peach Tree'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-First, 1917
'Nurse Cavell'
Exhibited at Thirty-Ninth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1900
Multiple works
Exhibited at Jubilee Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1911
'Madonna of the Peach Tree'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1896
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1906
'Bronze panel'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1908
'Enid the Fair'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1921
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1884 - 1927
Exhibited 41 times, about one hundred works in all. One work exhibited posthumously in 1928.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1893
1893
Mysteriarch (cat. no. 1207, in bronze £105, in marble £250).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-fourth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1894
1894
The Vision (cat. no. 1318, low relief, £30); Study for a Portrait (cat. no. 1322, bronze head, £20); My Thoughts are my Children (cat. no. 1351, relief, £350); 1) Winchester Medal, reverse and obverse, struck to commemorate 500th anniversary 2) Glasgow Medal, obverse and reverse (cat. no. 1352, with photograph showing sizes, not for sale).
Exhibited at Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition, 1896
2 May 1896 - 30 September 1896
Exhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Works of Modern Artists, The Fifty-Fourth, 1899
1899
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-ninth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1899
1899
William Rathbone, Esq. (cat. no. 1425, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Glasgow, 1901
1901
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the thirty-first (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1901
1901
Martin Harvey as Sydney Carton in 'The Only Way' (cat. no. 1531, plaster cast (sketch p. 121), not for sale); Edward VI (cat. no. 1535, plaster statue, not for sale).
Exhibited at Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, 1902
1902
Exhibited three works at the RHA exhibition of 1902, p. 29 (354-56).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
Chaucer (cat. no. 1387, plaster bust, not for sale); Alfred East, Esq., ARA (cat. no. 1397, bronze bust, not for sale); Mysteriarch (cat. no. 1409, plaster bust, illustrated on p. 124, £60).
Exhibited at Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings of the British School 1878-1903, and Sculpture (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1903
September 1903
Frampton exhibited one sculpture (undated).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-third (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1903
1903
William Strang (cat. no. 1403, bronze bust, not for sale); Right Hon. Sir Anthony Macdonnell, GCSI (cat. no. 1404, not for sale).
Exhibited at International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
1907
British Sculpture, Gallery II: 'Sketch Model for Marble Statue of Sir. Anthony Mac Donnell, GCSI, KCVO' (plaster), p. 23 (161), lent by the sculptor; 'He bringeth them unto their desired Haven' (bronze panel), p. 24 (162), lent by the sculptor; 'The true Queen is on her Throne when her Realm is on her Lap' (small group in plaster), p. 28 (228), lent by the sculptor.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Thirty-Fifth (Summer Exhibition), 1903
8 April 1903 - 20 April 1903
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1903' (1904), p. 27.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Forty-Third (Summer Exhibition), 1911
5 April 1911 - 15 April 1911
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Fiftieth (Summer Exhibition), 1918
9 April 1918 - 20 April 1918
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1918' (1919), p. 26.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1927
5 April 1927 - 15 April 1927
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1927' (1928), p. 31.
Involved in Franco-British Exhibition of Science, Art and Industries (London), 1908
2 March 1908
Was appointed part of Royal Society of British Sculptors' sub-committee of selection for the Franco-British Exhibition (2 March 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no. 1).
Judged Competition for memorial to John Calvin in Geneva
Was member of the jury [6 April 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].
Judged Competition for a monument to commemorate the foundation of the telegraphic [?]
1 November 1909 (Circa) - 1909 (Presumed)
Appointed by the Foreign Office to represent British sculptors on the committee [1 November 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Officer for Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
1924
Served on the Fund's committee. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1924', (1925), p. 9.
Selection committee member of Chantrey Bequest (Chantrey Fund; Royal Academy of Arts), 1875-1948
1905 - 1917
Served on the selection committee for sculpture in 1905, 1910, 1913 and 1917 (see Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1905', 1906, p. 21).
Selection committee member of International Exhibition, Dublin, 1907
21 July 1906 (Circa) - 1907 (Presumed)
Speaker at Sculptor's materials (Art Workers Guild), 1891
Speaker at Coloured Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1894
Speaker at Low-relief in Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1902
Took part in Second Continental Expedition of the Guild (Art Workers Guild), 1894
Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1885
Won prize The Brussels International Exhibition, 1897
1897
Second-Class Medal (Sculpture)
Institutional and Business Connections
Adjudicated on a panel at The Edinburgh College of Art
1909 - 1910
p. 6
Served as assessor on the adjudication committee for the Award of Diplomas (Sculpture Dept)
Advisor to Art Workers Guild
On leaving the Chair in 1902, Frampton stressed that only properly qualified candidates should be elected to the Guild. He also suggested that a benevolent fund should be established, to assist any member in 'temporary difficulties, or in time of illness', and offered to place £100 at its disposal [1902 AWG Annual report].
Committee member of The International Historical Congress
20 May 1920
The Society was asked by the British Academy to forward a representative to serve on the general committee of the Congress; the Society selected Frampton [20 May 1912, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1922 - 1928
Served on the Schools Committee in 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1921', (1922), p. 31.
Director of Central School of Arts and Crafts
1896 - June 1901
Listed as a joint Director of the school with W. R. Lethaby
Donor to Art Workers Guild
On leaving the chair in 1902, presented 'a badge in silver to be worn by the Master in his official capacity at Guild meetings. The badge represents the three arts of sculpture, architecture and painting, and bears the legend 'Art is unity'. A female figure in the centre, richly apparelled, bears in her hands a model of a domed building' [1902 AWG annual report, p.7].
Donor to Art Workers Guild
1914
Gave a bust he had made of past-Master William Strang [1914 AWG annual report, p.12]
Donor to Art Workers Guild
1928 (Circa)
'At the meeting held on the 6th July a letter was read from the Executors of the Will of the late Past-Master Sir George Frampton intimating that £500 had been left to the Art Workers' Guild Chest, the legacy to take effect upon Lady Frampton's decease' [AWG annual report for 1928, p.5].
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
9 January 1894
Elected RA in 1894.
Elected PRBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1910 - 1914
First listed in the Society's exhibition catalogues as President in Spring 1910.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
26 March 1902 - 21 May 1928
Frampton submitted 'Bust of the Marchoiness of Granby' as his Diploma Work in 1902. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1902', (1903), p. 52. Died in 1928.
Engaged by Technical Education Board of the London County Council
1894 (Presumed)
As Inspectors and Advisor to their board.
Honorary member of Aberdeen Artists' Society
1909 (Circa)
Invited to join Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923
Refused honorary membership in 1923 [List of members: Royal British Society of Sculptors]
Master of Art Workers Guild
1902
Donated a silver badge of office at the end of his tenure (see donation)
Member of Art Workers Guild
1887 - 1928
Committee member 1893-95, resigned 1899, rejoined 1900, master 1902, resigned 1916, rejoined 1916, resigned 1920, rejoined 1923.
Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1892 (Presumed) - 1907 (Presumed)
Was part of committee from at least 1892-1900.
As a Selection committee member in 1901, proposed changes to the rules of the society. Ones that might have affected sculptors included the development of a hanging committee(as a sub-committee of the selection committee), the suggestion that exhibitors should pay for the delivery and removal of their works, and the decision that the exhibition was open to all artists, members or not, who were resident in the UK (the society would also reserve the right to invite foregin or non-resident British artists to exhibit). Of these ammendments, the first and last were carried, the second rejected.
Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1904 - 1914
Had been member of council but requested that his name should not be forwarded for re-election [1 March 1909, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1]. Resigned in 1914, and a letter was sent to Frampton to ask him to reconsider.
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1902 - 21 May 1928
Listed as a Member of the Council from 1902 to 1904, 1910 to 1911, 1918 to 1919, and from 1927 to his death in 1928. See Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Note that 1911, Frampton was selected as the only sculptor to serve on the committee of the British Academy (School) at Rome. See 'Annual Report, 1911', (1912). p. 10.
Member of council The British School at Rome
1911
Represented the Royal Academy of Arts on the Council and assisted in formulating the Rome scholarship scheme [20 November 1911, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1]
Member of council The London Society
20 May 1912
Frampton was asked to join the Council of the London Society; Council of the Royal Society of British Sculptors decided that he should accept the offer [20 May 1912, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
President of Royal Society of British Sculptors
20 November 1911 - February 1914
See also resignation relationship
Resigned from Royal Society of British Sculptors
February 1914
He resigned as President (together with several members of the Council) after a stormy meeting on 27 February 1914. This followed a vote of censure passed at an Extraordinary Meeting of the RBS (16 January 1914) criticising the RBS Council for their support of James Havard Thomas and his actions re a commission for ten marble sculptures to fill empty niches and pedestals in the staircase hall of Cardiff City Hall. Frampton and his colleagues severed connections with the RBS until 1926 when it transpired that Frampton had been acting on the direct request of the patron, Lord Rhondda. The vote of censure was then expunged.
Seconded motion to Royal Society of British Sculptors
2 March 1905 - 3 April 1905
Lawes-Wittewronge 'gave notice to move at the next council meeting: That it be recommended to the General Meeting that ladies be eligible for membership. Mr Frampton would second the notion' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.1]. The motion was lost at the meeting on the following meeting [3 April 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.1]
Student at South London Technical School of Art (also Lambeth School of Art and City and Guilds of London Art School)
1880 (Circa) - 1881 (Circa)
Enrolled in modelling classes between these dates
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
7 March 1882 - 1887 (Presumed)
This start date is given by Popp and Valentine, 'Directory of Membership', (1996), p. 44. Frampton won a first prize of £50 for a set of three models of a figure from the life in 1883. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1883', (1884), p. 34. In 1884 he won first prize for a model of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1884', (1885), p. 43. In 1885, Frampton was awarded a Landseer Scholarship in sculpture (a £10 prize, tenable for two years). See 'Annual Report, 1885', (1886), p. 34. In 1886, he won a second prize of £10 for a model of a design, and in 1887 Frampton was awarded the gold medal and travelling studentship of £200, for a composition in sculpture. See 'Annual Report, 1887', (1888), p. 32.
Teacher of modeling at Slade School of Fine Art
September 1893 - June 1899
Listed as teacher of sculpture. From September 1896 onwards Frampton is also listed as an Assistant Professor. Last listed in the 1898-1899 prospectus.
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1895 - 1921
Listed as a Visitor to the School of Modelling from the Life from 1895 to 1916, and from 1919 to 1921. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Reports'.
Worked for The Birmingham Mint Limited
Employed by the Mint. See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 454, no dates are given.
Worked with Heming and Co.
Listed in Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 476, as 'publishers of a medal of William Blades' (1890), and 'various Prize Medals, one of which (illustrated) bears the monogram of George J. Frampton, the Sculptor' [summary]. However, in vol. 7, (1923), p. 437, Forrer notes that 'the Prize medal, with bust of Queen Victoria was not modelled by Frampton, but Gibbons, and the dies were cut by Messrs Pinches and Co., who struck the medal'. See vol. 7, (1923), p. 437.
Worked with Elkington & Co.
1902 (Presumed)
Forrer describes 'a coronation medal of King Edward VII., June 1902' produced/probably struck by Elkington and Co. that was engraved by George Frampton: see Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 13 [summary].
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant was William James Bloye
1919 (Circa)
See 'Sculptor's Work', Birmingham Weekly Post, 21 March, 1952, in 'Birmingham Biography', vol. 43, p. 146. The article notes that Bloye 'served in the first world war, and was assistant to Sir George Frampton, the sculptor, in London, before returning to Birmingham.
Gave award to Fanindra Nath Bose
Assessor to Bose at the Edinburgh College of Art. His drawing and modelling was highly praised by Frampton.
Mother/father/parent of Meredith Frampton
Nominated by Lawrence Alma- Tadema
1 December 1890
For RA.
Nominator of William Robert Colton
4 April 1899
For RA.
Nominator of Francis Derwent Wood
8 January 1900
For RA.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
8 January 1903
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Benjamin Clemens
19 November 1907
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of David McGill
19 November 1907
For RA.
Nominator of Charles Leonard Hartwell
19 November 1907
For RA.
Nominator of Arthur George Walker
19 November 1907
For RA.
Nominator of Basil Gotto
19 November 1907
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Henry Poole
2 December 1907
For RA.
Nominator of Harold Parker
2 December 1907
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of James Havard Thomas
23 January 1908
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of James Nesfield Forsyth
2 March 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Nominator of Thomas Stirling Lee
20 November 1911
To represent the Royal Society of British Sculptors on the Council for formulating the Travelling Studentship of Rome, following the death of Lawesp-Wittewronge [20 November 1911, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
1912
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Mortimer John Brown
1912
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Ernest George Gillick
1912 - 22 February 1927
Two nominations for RA.
Nominator of Alexander James Leslie
1912 (Presumed)
For RA; cancelled nomination at an unspecified date.
Nominator of Richard Louis Garbe
4 May 1912
For RA.
Nominator of (Alfred) Adrian Jones
24 February 1913
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of William Reid Dick
1914 - 31 March 1919
For RA, nominations in both 1914 and 1919, both unsuccessful.
Nominator of Thomas Mewburn Crook
26 April 1917 - January 1925
two nominations for RA, in 1917 and 1925, both unsuccessful.
Nominator of Leonard Stanford Merrifield
26 April 1917 - 1925
Two nominations for RA, in 1917 and 1925, both unsuccessful.
Nominator of Paul Raphael Montford
1918
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Charles Sargeant Jagger
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominator of Gilbert Ledward
31 March 1919
For RA.
Nominator of Ferdinand Victor Blundstone
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Stanley Nicholson Babb
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Gilbert William Bayes
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of John Tweed
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
22 February 1927
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Edgar Allan Howes
March 1943
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Seconded by Edward Onslow Ford
1 December 1890
For RA.
Seconder of Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
25 April 1895
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of Gustave Matzof
25 June 1898
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of Henry Richard Hope-Pinker
14 February 1899
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
4 April 1899
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of Albert Arthur Toft
9 January 1906
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of Richard Louis Garbe
11 May 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
Seconder of William Kellock Brown
2 November 1908
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [2 November 1908, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1]
Seconder of William Banbury
20 November 1911
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors [20 November 1911, Royal Society of British Sculptors: Minutes of Council Meetings, no.1].
Sought assistance from A. G. Temple
8 May 1905 (Circa)
Frampton discussed the possibility of an exhibition of sculpture in the Art Gallery of the Corporation of London with Temple; the response was lukewarm; 'Mr Temple had not displayed much enthusiasm for the art of sculpture, and did not appear likely to be an advocate of the scheme' [8 May 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I].
Studio assistant to (Joseph) Edgar Boehm
1890
Taught Hypatia Rodocanachi
See Forrer, vol. 5, (1912), p. 146, no dates are given.
Taught Florence Newman
1890 (Circa)
Newman is listed as a pupil of Frampton: see Forrer, vol. 4, (1909), p. 254, no dates are given. However the Census Returns state she was an art student around 1891.
Worked with William Reid Dick
1892
Whilst an apprentice, Reid Dick worked as a carver on the decoration of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery under the overall direction of George Frampton
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist 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 VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Forrer notes that Frampton exhibited a case of badges and medals at the Royal Academy, London, in 1908. Also exhibited the Royal Institute of British Architects medal at the New York International Medallic Exhibition in March 1910. Forrer lists some of Frampton's additional medallic works dating from between 1890 and 1920. See Forrer, vol. 7, (1923), p. 317.
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 II, 1904 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a sculptor. Forrer discusses a number of medals produced by Frampton. The artist exhibited his 'Winchester Quincentenary' medal (1893), and his gold 'Medal for Glasgow University' (1895), in 1899. Forrer also designed and executed a medal 'for the Corporation of the City of London' which 'was exhibited in 1901 at the Royal Academy with a seal for the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund.' Forrer lists Victor G. Parr, 'Men and Women of the Time', London (1899), p. 384, and 'The Studio' (1899), as his sources. See Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 136.
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1900 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1900
p.2371
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Sculptor' neither employed nor unemployed
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Sculptor' working on own account
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor' employer, business carried on by the employer: 'Art'
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